In such a moment as we find ourselves, with the suffering nearly unbearable to contemplate in Gaza, which is perhaps the most disturbing because of the gleeful cruelty with which the torture and genocide
is imposed; but also in Haiti, South Sudan, and even in Ukraine, where men are being kidnapped to be used as cannon fodder in the dying Empire’s war – a war on the brink of crossing the threshold into a land of no return – one might ask, “Why should we pause to give thanks?”
Let us each ask ourselves, “Did you choose your circumstance of birth?”