If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' just say this, 'The Lord needs it.'"(Luke 19:31 from Luke 19:28-40)
Why: A heartfelt word
The account of Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem is prefaced by this slightly odd, drawn out exchange: ‘Why are you untethering this colt?...’The Lord needs it’. Of all the words that we stumble over or are the most difficult to move past ‘Why’ is surely one of the more obdurate and yet also the most seminal. It’s often associated with suffering or discomfort, our own or that of others: national conflicts; personal jealousies and prejudices that flare up in an instance; puzzlement about Wisdom, a plan and meaning emerge. Why the cruelty? Why the greed? Why me? Why oh Lord?
Until we find the communal meaning and significance of the suffering of all life, we will continue to retreat into our individual, small worlds in our misguided quest for personal safety and sanity. Richard Rohr.
Why? can seem like a door closer or a door opener. Demanding and overlaid with conditions it retreats slamming a door behind it. When we are done with our fighting, exhausted from our tirades, reduced by our confusion (none of which is inherently bad or inappropriate) then, empty and humble, something may open up within us to hear, beyond our ‘our individual, small world’, another Voice, one of solidarity.
Threshold meditation
With a ‘why?’ in mind go to the threshold meditation.