SL01-02 Visioning Divine Light in Thailand and in U.S. Border Towns and Detention Centers
Jul 21, 2018
Episode #: 2
Title: Reuniting
BroadCastDate: July 21, 2018
Show Greeting:
Thank you for joining me today for the second episode of the Spei Lumina — Light’s of Hope podcast. Spei Lumina is written, produced, and hosted by me Fr. Donald Knight. I hope you like the pray dreaming exercise I will be guiding you through today.
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Intro:
During the recent news cycles it seemed as if everyone across the world united and held our collective breath and prayed as we awaited the outcome of the dramatic and heroic rescue of the twelve Thai Wild Boar soccer team members and their assistant coach from the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Over the three weeks that this story unfolded, we’d be elated by the discovery of all 12 team members and their assistant coach and quickly saddened and lose a little hope when we’d hear about the death of Saman Kunam, a retired Thai Navy diver who would die on July 6th as he worked with his team staging tanks of oxygen along the flooded passage.
While the world celebrated the news of the blessed rescue of all 12 boys and their assistant coach on July 10th, we here in the United States were reminded in the news cycles that our government’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy had separated sons and daughters from their mothers and fathers as their families attempted to illegally cross into the United States. Parents and children were separated and detained as they awaited court proceedings. The news cycles continued with coverage of the delay in reuniting children with their families and the unaccompanied children having to appear alone in immigration court, one as young as 1 year old.
Many emotions I am sure were no doubt stirred up by both stories amongst all exposed to these news stories. Some positive and encouraging emotions of gratitude, relief, appreciation, adoration and exaltation perhaps. Other emotions felt may include disheartening, disturbing, enraging, aggravating, and exasperating.
It’s as if one news cycle showed us the best in humanity and coming to the service of your fellow man and how we all are connected by showing us how rescuing 13 people in a cave half the world over can lift us up and be proud, happy and grateful for the heroic efforts of all committed to their rescue. While in our back own yard, the news cycle about how our government’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy was so wicked, so devastating and harmful to the children and parents involved.
On one hand we all prayed for those children trapped in a cave while on the other hand some of us wept and felt shame and anger and remorse for the actions taken against families and children seeking asylum and escape from violence in their own countries to live out their dream of life in America.
It is this emotional roller coastal I’ve felt drawn to pray with this week in our pray dreaming exercise. It is these two extremes of stories about children separated from their families — one with a joyful resolution, the other with a resolution not so complete and with an impact on so many children and their parents and the nation so divided by our government’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
Music Clip Attributes:
The music clip used in the introduction was provided by the user abett on freesounds.org. Licensing info for this clip can be found at https://freesound.org/people/abett/sounds/316706/
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.
The humming clip of the Swedish lullaby “Byssan Lull” was provided by the user drotzruhn on freesounds.org. Licensing info for this clip can be found at https://freesound.org/people/drotzruhn/sounds/405202/