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I鈥檝e been keeping my eye on a wall repair not far from me.
To be honest, it didn鈥檛 look much of a problem. 聽You know the sort of thing. 聽It was quite a high suburban wall but had something of a bulge in it. 聽
It turns out that it was in imminent danger of collapse. 聽Walls, unlike wooden or metal structures, come down in an instant 鈥� it鈥檚 why the death toll of earthquakes can be particularly devastating in rural areas where so many houses are stone-built. 聽Central Italy is an obvious recent example.
So the masons began to take the bulging wall apart, stone by stone. 聽Down they went, well past the bulge, down past the lowest courses into the very earth itself. 聽 The builders knew that the problem had to be sorted out from its foundations. 聽Any messing about higher up would be a waste of time and leave passers-by at risk.
About two and a half thousand years ago, Jewish and Christian scriptures record the words of a prophet whose name was Isaiah. 聽Courageously he spoke truth to power and warned God鈥檚 people against building the wealth of their community on rotten foundations - the oppression of others and a culture of deceit. 聽
鈥淵ou鈥檙e like a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse,鈥� he says. 鈥淲hen the crash comes, it will come suddenly, in an instant.鈥澛�
So, God of justice and truth, help me to be set my face against any behavior that subjects others to cruelty, bullying or any kind of oppression. 聽Help me to speak the truth, act truthfully, and so build my life and our community on solid foundations. Amen.