A time to search for something other than vengeance
Over Easter 2024, four articles were commissioned by our xvox team and delivered to various mainstream news outlets for publication.
This article was written by Rev Scottie Reeve and published in The Post. Rev Scottie Reeve is an Anglican priest in Brooklyn, Wellington.
This is an excerpt from the article -
“As the poet Mary Oliver once said: “Noticing is the beginning of devotion.”
The Easter story is the story of the God who notices.
A God who left the heavens to dwell in the suffering of humanity, who wandered the dark corners of society with the sick and the reviled and offered them names and families. And who, even as he died on the cross, conversed with a dying criminal to offer him peace.
When he breathed his last breath, he declared to our obsession with blame and recompense: “It is finished.”
This weekend, the words of Jesus invite us to a radical new idea. What if he is the last person who needs to go on a cross for our pain? In God’s noticing of us, and our noticing of one another, there is a new way.”