that wound must be alive, but consoling

It is urgent to formulate livable stories for us, stories bind us together into a common heritage.

Here is a world where innocence is manipulated by the powerful, and is poisoned with aggression, revenge, suspicion, and lawlessness in the name of religious and political ideologies. What we need is a conscience for humanity. 

We may not be strong enough to stand against violence, but we must stand near the victims and for them. The pain of the innocents needs to be alive in us. The presence of those wounds is not for hurting, and causing further pain, but offering a sympathetic presence. Any form of violence disturbs us personally and as society, and at times leaves us in distress. If we bear the wounds of the vulnerable, and really experience the presence of the risen Lord we also will have a message, not a disappointing one, but of hope. 

We need to speak this message as a witnessing presence of Christ. The wounds are in our hearts, the message is in us, that is for the world. Christ wants to speak to the world: "here I am." Does the conscience of Christ make present in our own, and do we have a message of Christ? If we are reluctant to speak, we speak of absence of Christ in us, in the church. If we have a message, we must speak of it diligently to our children, "talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up." Because the wounds of the world necessarily stir our conscience. Does he ask us to challenge and revolt? He asks us to be with the poor, console the moaners, support the persecuted, feed the hungry... That hope is what needs to be the heart of our conscience.

While the time we also need to develop spiritual strength to face violence. We need to have such a spiritual depth in order to challenge the oppressors without hatred.  Otherwise we ourselves begin to inflict wounds in the name of justice and solidarity.