From Adam
We live in a world today not too dissimilar from the world of Jonah. It is a world with rampant segregation and dehumanization. If someone doesn’t look like us, live like us, vote like us, believe like us, love like us, or go to school like us, then we are all too happy to passively dismiss, discount, or ignore the validity of their experience. We love to get angry at ideas and opinions that are not our own. God asks Jonah, “Is it right for us to be angry about me saving the Ninevites?” That’s how the book of Jonah ends. We are left with an open question from God to Jonah, which is also from God to us. God basically says to Jonah, “They are real people! They are humans! They are made in my image just as you are. Can’t you see that? Look for me in them, and you will find me. Look for differences and reasons to hate them, and you will find it.” Who are the people in your life that you too quickly discount? Who are the people that you love to discredit and dismiss? Who are the people that you dehumanize . . . in whom you refuse to see the image of God? God’s up to something . . . be a part of it.