Our age has sought to bring equality to the fore as no age before it. We have sought out shadows and fought to bring light. We have set up models, glorified leaders, and proclaimed our heroes.
One shadow still remains; the shadow that covers every human soul and is in need of healing: the shadow of woundedness.
Woundedness doesn’t speak to glory, but rather to struggle. Yet, in all the ways that we are alike, and there really aren’t that many, none is so universal as that of being human and wounded. Perhaps that is why we call Jesus the wounded healer.
Sirach 24:21 says You who eat of me will hunger still, you who drink of me will thirst for me. It is as if we are being told no matter what our accomplishments, we will still have needs, we will still have emptiness, we will still want. And in our attempts to satisfy these wants, we often compromise. We have all done it, and not one person can stand aside and claim differently.
I think remembering this fact brings about a true unity, an honest community, a sincere equality. We stand together most of all when we admit our wounds and emptiness. Such acknowledgements should result in a greater understanding and compassion for each other in the journey.
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