Who is the Other, the Alien, the Foreigner?
Job 19:15 (NIV)
“My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.”
Psalm 69:8 (NIV)
“I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children.”
Not too long ago I was reading a book by a Benedictine nun. As I read, she kept talking about “the other”. I pictured the other as someone terrible. It took a while, but finally I figured out that she was talking about me. The other was anyone who was not part of her Benedictine community. It made me stop and think about how it felt to be the other. After all, when I think about the other, it…
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