| Advent 1: “… where war is a staple of life …” |
| Written by bill leety |
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“… where war is a staple of life …” with one eye and a nod to Isaiah 2:1-5 Mercy alters places the phrase describes; mercy’s time, wisdom, weariness or loss. Few escape war as life’s bread and butter — not Iraq, Sudan or Somalia Georgia (the nation, or state), Serbia Bosnia, Vietnam or Tibet Myanmar or Burma by any name these United States of America fhe Falklands or Koreas, Cambodia Pakistan, Kurdistan, Afghanistan or any other “Stan,” boy soldiers, girl, woman or man soldiers in-surgencies or out-surgencies, terrors or counter terror — war is a staple. Isaiah sings a melody by heart; like him who used the phrase to pray for people in places where war is a staple of life. Now lean towards that Bethlehem stable. Drones there are worker bees, not sky spies. Silos hold grain, not war-headed missiles. There by the stable, peace is a staple. |
