Jenga
1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and on them he has set the world.
Hannah’s song has several such examples in it of God turning things upside-down. “The bows of the mighty are broken but the feeble become strong. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn” … all of which tell about who God is and what God wants. What justice looks like in practical terms. But it’s this line that makes me pump my fist in the air and shout for joy: the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s and on them he has set the world.
The people who say “that’s just the way it is”, and “nothing’s ever going to change” because evil is seated in positions of power without challenge - they have forgotten that pillars our world rests on do not belong to powerful humans, they belong to God. She can pull the rug out from under the structures we build anytime.
Pick a structural evil and think deeply about it: what foundations does it rest on? What’s at the bottom of the pillar propping it up? What can you do to pull out that shim and cause the whole world to roll?
— Kate Davoli
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