Piloting Faith: A Jubilee Year
A Word for the Day...
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, there’s this wonderful concept of a Jubilee year. Every 50 years, you take one year to change the patterns of life. You forgive debts. You suspend the calendar. You reset who owes what to whom so there’s a more even playing field. I’ve always love this idea but thought it unreachable or impracticable... until today.
We’ve now been in this disrupted way of living long enough to establish a new level of openness and creativity. What if we learn from the past and use this interesting time as one of Jubilee? What if we use this time as a year where few of the old rules apply? What if we use the spirit of generosity, forgiveness and genuine compassion for the other’s journey to dictate the way we all engage each other going forward?
So much is already broken open. Let’s actively break open the rest. We’ve already seen the ways rules that kept us segregated, oppressed and oppressing have fallen away. Let’s keep up the good work. Declare this the year of Jubilee! It’s a new game open to a new vision. May heaven come to earth.
We are in this together,
Rev. Cameron Trimble
Author of 60 Days of Faith: A Devotional
Prayer for the Week
THIS IS MY PRAYER ROOM
(excerpt)
Pray with me, say the words,
ring the bell, we’re almost there.
This part is my favorite,
it’s where god feels the closest.
So ask for mercy, or for help,
or forgiveness, no need to tell.
For my story is your story,
is every body’s story.
- Mícheál Ó’Súilleabháin
from EARLY MUSIC ©2019 Mícheál Ó’Súilleabháin & Many Rivers Press
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