Coming Out, Shouting Out, Wherever We Are

"Coming Out, Shouting Out, Wherever We Are"

It's Easter -- and nobody's where they're supposed to be!
Wherever we thought we could put them and keep them?
Women now running out shouting Good News to the men of us!
Gay people running out shouting Good News to the straight of us!
Poor people running to tell the rich! Young running to tell the old!
Murdered, even dismembered, running to tell their own murderers and
dismemberers! Bombed people running to tell their bombers!
Tortured to tell their torturers! New Orleans strutting to tell the rest of the nation!
Good News always the same: BE NOT AFRAID!
For Heaven's sake, Earth's sake, Don't be afraid.

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Easter Radical Emigration, Cosmic Coming Out; Exodusing, Exodusting,

world-sweeping Movements of Migrants, begging to know --
How big is our World? Our Earth? Our Human Family?

How borderless is our Creation? "Setting earth upon its foundations?

Maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen?"

"Though remaining immutable and without change, always completely in movement." "Completely outside creation, completely in every creature,

filling everything completely." "Completely outside everything, above

everything, yet not separated from the world . . ." (Symeon)

"Earth does not belong to the human; human beings belong to the Earth."

(Chief Seattle)

"Am I a U.S. citizen who happens to be a Christian?

Or a Christian who happens to be a U.S. citizen?" (Tom Fox)

"It's not the Church who will save the Immigrants,

it is the Immigrants who will save the Church." (Don Groody)

Birthright-boasting Jacob, camping family on border, at Jabbock, en route to be reconciled, wrestling night-long with border guard (Border God?), patrolling between right relations and us. "To cross over to freedom you have to show the bogus guards at the border that you have a mind of your own." (Bill Moyers)

Nosotros tambien tenemos un sueno!

Nothing like the first Day of Resurrection since seventh-day Rest from Creation?