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As we wrap up our consideration of preferential options and patriarchy, again, while they wait, the synagogue leader\u2019s daughter does die, and it looks like this story will affirm the social assumption that if we take care of those considered less than in our society then there won\u2019t be enough for everyone else. We assume life is a zero-sum game. But, as the saying goes, justice isn\u2019t like pie. In fact, we are all connected and, as Martin Luther King, Jr. later said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Jesus assures the synagogue leader that it will be okay: just keep believing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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And when Jesus arrives at the synagogue leader\u2019s house, he takes the hand of the daughter and restores her back to life. Stopping to help the woman on the way, in the end, didn\u2019t cost the synagogue leader his daughter. Ultimately, there was enough for both.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These two characters were not just connected by this story, but also in humanity. They were connected to each other the same way we are each connected to each other. The synagogue leader not only regained his daughter, but could also gain restoration of a part of his own humanity as he learned to look differently at those his society was marginalizing. When we share rather than hoard, we find there\u2019s enough for us all. Rather than building bigger piles of hoarded resources we can build community, communities where each of us is committed to taking care of one another. As the saying states, the Earth produces each day enough for every persons\u2019 need but not every person\u2019s greed.<\/p>\n

There are multiple layers to this story too. The synagogue leader\u2019s daughter is described as 12 years old. The woman has had an issue of blood for those 12 years. The synagogue leader\u2019s daughter was also on the verge of maturing into a kind of social death within her society. She was about to grow into a body that now placed the Torah\u2019s purity and cleanliness laws upon her shoulders where each month her body would cause her to be considered unclean. In Journeys By Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power, <\/i>Rita Nakishima Brock writes, \u201cBoth females are afflicted with crises associated with the status of women in Greco-Roman and Hebraic society\u201d (p. 83)<\/p>\n

This little girl is about to enter into a new relationship with the patriarchy within her society. She is on the verge of death socially. She is embarking on what it means to be a woman in her world. Mark\u2019s gospel places Jesus in life-giving opposition to that. The women of the Jesus community of Mark\u2019s gospel portray Jesus resurrecting and liberating them from, the injustices of their own patriarchal communities.<\/p>\n

Placing the synagogue leader next to the woman in this week\u2019s reading teaches us to practice a preferential option for the marginalized of our society. And placing the woman alongside this little girl calls us to reject preferential options practiced within patriarchy, pitting marginalized people against each other. Jesus\u2019 teachings had been life-giving for those in the Markan community who were marginalized within their society. Specifically here, the story zooms in on women\u2019s experiences in Greco-Roman and Hebrew society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot to consider here today. Is our Christian practice patriarchal? Do we practice preference for the socially privileged or the marginalized? Our reading this week calls each of us to asses whether our Jesus following actually looks like the Jesus story and its ethics, values, and practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How does this week\u2019s reading define being a Jesus follower in our contexts today? What changes is this week\u2019s story calling each of us to make?<\/p>\n

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