I was thinking about the exile the other day. The Jewish people were in their homeland and then they weren't, exiled from the place they called home, trying to discover how they were to worship God in this strange and foreign land.
Dislocation occurs when the order is disrupted. When I was 10, the orderly way in which my forearm bone worked was disrupted by a fall from a bicycle. We suffer countless dislocations as we go through life -- sometimes physical, often relational. Sometimes, our lives are disrupted when we lose jobs. Other times, it's when we have to relocate and learn a new place. Lately, we've all been dislocated by the new way we are all discovering how to live. Fear and uncertainty loom large.
The Israelites in exile probably thought they would never know how to worship properly again. But they found a way to move forward, and eventually made it home.
In the same way, we'll find a way to continue to worship God in this present dislocation, and as God will do with all things, this will be set right, in God's time.
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