ITLOTC
(In The Life Of The Church)
Lent
The Nobodies
I (Taylor) have been thinking so much lately about the ways in which we caveat the way in which we value human life. We don’t mean to – I know – and we would never say we value some lives more than others. We would never say it out loud I mean. But so often we live in such a way that conveys it.
I went to a luncheon at the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work at Baylor yesterday where I heard a lecture from Karen Gonzalez author of The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong. During our time together she shared a poem by Eduardo Galeono – an influential Urugyan journalist and novelist. The poem is titled “Las Nadies” or “The Nobodies,” and I have been thinking about it non-stop since. So I wanted to share it here with all of you:
Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them–will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms.
The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way.
Who are not, but could be.
Who don’t speak languages, but dialects.
Who don’t have religions, but superstitions.
Who don’t create art, but handicrafts.
Who don’t have culture, but folklore.
Who are not human beings, but human resources.
Who do not have faces, but arms.
Who do not have names, but numbers.
Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper.
The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.
- “Los Nadies”, Eduardo Galeono
I loved it because it seemed to connect with so much I have been thinking about lately and offer conviction at the same time. We are called to love everyone. And we believe that all humans are born bearing the Imago Dei – every single person bears the image of God into this world. And if we believe that really and truly then we should be working continually to create a world that reflects that. A world where nobody is a nobody.
So I am going to be thinking about how I can best live that out. But I don’t know that there is one single way, there are probably a bunch – advocacy, hospitality, supporting non-profits that are doing good work, and a million other things come to mind – and I don’t know that one single person can move the needle on this, it probably requires a multitude. But I’d love to talk to you about it if you have similar thoughts or any ideas about what we can do. Just shoot me an email at taylor@ubcwaco.org and we’ll talk.
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