A Capella and with Cohens lyrics, love is here described as not a victory march but a cold and broken Hallelujah. A notion to ponder. I am now studying through Ezekiel in my cover to cover study of the Jerusalem bible and the message is most frequently less than optimistic - somewhat like this song. Yet there is still hope, albeit amid devastation so severe that time must not be taken to mourn. Ezekiel is given (or uses) imagery that his hauntingly similar to our times. Specifically, he uses the image of the whore who is so overcome with lust that she pays her lovers to abuse her (an allegorical reference to the Kingdoms if Israel and Judah) - a state far worse than prostitution, according to Ezekiel. This, of course, applies to all vassal states and particularly to those paying tribute to Rome in later days. But what about us? Everything seems to run on ads yet we pay for the ads that irritate us through our commercial dealings. Do we not play the same part with our heroes in sports and other entertainment venues through building venues with hard earned tax dollars that many will never reap any benefit from, all for the promise that somehow business will be our savior, regardless of the cost and without requisite analyses? Do we not shrink from our core values of liberty, equality, and justice in order to celebrate people whose actions are despicable and to ignore the heroic helpers of the sick, poor, and downtrodden amongst us? Therefore, perhaps, maybe, we should be slower to anger at outrage after outrage in the news - which is, of course, a business and puts those things in the news so peak your outrage for which you pay - almost QED to Ezekiels point. Those are among the things the Ezekiel brings to my thoughts this pass through. Shabbat Shalom.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:52:00 +0000
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