Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35

Year A - 7^th Sunday of Easter or Assured ⁷

June 1, 2014

Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35

Need a definition of G*D to help you know where you fit into living as an image of G*D? Verse 5 and 35b offer this: 

     A parent to the orphan

     and protector of the defenseless

     is our G*D, who dwells in wholeness!

     G*D gives power and strength to people.

As we come to the end of our Easter Sundays we are set up for Pentecost and the going forth to all those folks who are different from us. “Orphans” is but one way of describing our separation from one another and “power and strength” but one way of reconnecting by investing these qualities in those others we have previously orphaned.

Bottom line of Easter—don’t just “ascribe” or proclaim awesomeness, but see that those who are marginalized are raised up and included in.

For those interested in such things, track the Inclusive Capitalism Initiative (ICI) that is willing to give a little more to orphans so the basic drive of capitalism can continue to benefit the current winners. Here’s an article that looks at whether such an economic system can actually care for others or just give them a bit more to keep them from acting on what a revolting mess has been made of looking at the world through the eyes of wealth. ICI: noblesse-oblige? or capitalism’s resurrection?