As Australia prepares to vote in a referendum that could grant First Nations people a Voice in our own country, I am confronted with the suffering of my people, writes Stan Grant.
We didn't need white people to bring us God. And my people read scriptures and read in Jesus an ancestor.
Lamentations offers no easy respite. There is no prophet to lead the way. There is just the "metallic chill" of indifference."He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; indeed he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long." What do I do in the midst of suffering? Do I fall to resentment and vengeance? Is that not the greater affliction, to be defined by suffering; to become a mirror image of our persecutors?
Simone Weil said that God withdraws from the world. It is this space that allows us to live.
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