The picture painted here, especially by the verses of the Psalm not included in the lectionary reading (Psalm 104:1-23) is an astonishing vision of the ubiquity of the Creator within their creation, directly immersed within the moment-by-moment dance of life in its most intimate, even quotidian – eating, drinking, growing, building, nesting: these are the tasks of home and family. Divine empathy for daily life, in its glorious diversity, for everything that is alive.
If Jesus is a vine, can we really accept a theology which permits us to sit back and take without contributing anything ourselves?
Family abolitionists can help us understand why we experience a scarcity of care and help us imagine a society where there is an abundance of care.
