We Sit in Uncomfortable Places ~ Alexie Torres-Fleming

"I’m not a theologian, but I learned about the theology of the incarnation. One of the beautiful things I read is that you cannot redeem what you will not assume. It says to me experience of God among us was God among the poorest of the poor—colonized, marginalized, suffering, oppressed people. If I want to redeem that, I have to be willing to assume that, to become one with that..... But what gives me courage is that model of “I cannot redeem what I am not at some level willing to assume or become like.” We sit in uncomfortable places when we heed God’s call."

~ Alexie Torres-Fleming 

More at http://www.fwccamericas.org/publications/wqf/2010_fall/Uncomfortable_places.shtml

Artwork by Angie  Lewin http://www.godfreyandwatt.co.uk/angie-lewin-christmas-2012.html