Let the Dead Bury Their Own Dead
Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. A scribe then approached and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.” (Matthew 8:18-22). A couple of weeks ago, I talked about ghosts . In the event that you were skeptical of the power of the ghosts of the pasts, you should no longer be after watching what unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday and Saturday. Ghosts of the past, ghosts that many (wrongly, naively) thought were dead and buried came to life. Ghosts took the life Heather Heyer , a martyr for justice. Ghosts were everywhere, and their power was unmistakable. In the face of this horror, there were rays of li...