I've been thinking a lot about the radicalism of the Incarnation this Advent and Christmas, how outrageously ennobling it is of our most basic life experience no matter how humble and humiliating I think we're about to experience lots of that humiliation and I don't think secularism in the context of our experience is going to provide us what we need to deal with that. I'm taking this kind of human experience ever more seriously as we face ever worse in the future.
This Spiritual is about how the enslaved and those under the de facto slavery of white supremacy found their connection with the Holy Spirit to continue on, that continuing itself resistance to the attempt to destroy them. Having the meet in the mire, far into the swampy wilderness to avoid detection and to have their meeting destroyed by their enemies, those who enslaved them and sought to destroy their aspirations.
The ending in which Bessie Jones described how such spirituals would be repeated (meditated on) is, in fact, an effective method of meditation, one that will leave you with more than the "mindfulness" that is so notably consonant with billionaire-millionaire amorality. "Spirituality" that is about everything ends up being about nothing. Though it's far easier if you want to do whatever you want to whoever you want to and take no moral responsiblity.
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