In Whose Image?
The supreme religious challenge is to see God's image in the one who is not in our image. -Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in whose image? Imagine...the Hebrew Bible commands us- in more than thirty places- to love and welcome the stranger, for each and all of us have been a stranger...somewhere, at some time... and in the stranger, we can see the face of God, welcome angels unaware. But far too often- if honesty prevails- the only god we can see is the one made in our image...the one who looks like us and acts the way we think God should... and if God is indeed only the way I see divinity, the way you see holiness, then we can- with smug & self-righteous justification- deny the image of God in those unlike us, in our enemies. Easier by far to "worship" God than to love our neighbor (let alone our enemy!... to see the person right in front us as the unique, beautiful Child of God she is...to stand in awe of t...