I also likened this to the way in which the Church is supposed to surround those in crises. This also led me to wonder where the Church fits into this book? I think that this poem can be take as a call to surround those who are dealing with these various issues and to love them. At the end of the book, when the ladies are simply making meals and having fellowship together, I feel that that is one of the most healing things that they could have done. I do not believe that any of them could have made it without the other, and I feel that sharing their fears, failures, hopes and dreams with each other acted as sort of a catharsis. This was a beautiful picture to me as I was reading through the book.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Healing in Community
At the end of this book, there is a beautiful picture of the healing that takes place when people come together to share their burdens. This was amazing to me because these women had gone through so much, yet they still had the courage to stand together and to heal together. This just shows that if you have a strong community, you will be able to make it through your circumstances with the help of those around you.
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ReplyDeleteI definitely feel that the church needs to be there to reach out to those that are hurting, examples of such that are in this book. However, I also think that it is important to catch the girls before they become women, to "teach them in the way they should go, so that when they are old, they will not depart from it." I say this because many of the girls had attitudes that were misguided, like the lady in red. She wanted to be every man's dream and then toss him out the window. I know this is a book, and she had a role to play in the book, but fancifully speaking, if a little old neighbor lady had invited her to church as a little girl, she would have learned that her body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that her identity is found in Christ, not in how many men she has caught and discarded.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the Church is also there for women who did not have the benefit of being trained at a young age.