Sunday, July 11, 2021

Radical abandonment (Br. John Hamilton)


--Take nothing for the journey
but a walking stick
.
 (Mark 6:8)

   To go out empty means to encounter the other out of our own emptiness. It is to be available to recognize and receive the presence and the call as it comes to us in the encounter. Whatever we are possessing, materially, intellectually, emotionally, is an obstacle to that openness. The power and authority with which the disciples go out is their faith in Jesus. And we know from the gospels that they do not yet know in any definitive way exactly who Jesus is. So, their authority lies in their radical abandonment to what they encounter in their going out.

--Brother John Hamilton, Take Nothing for the Journey

Image source:  https://the-toast.net/2014/12/08/jesus-twelve-disciples-stick-poke-tattoos/
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