Cracking a Few Eggs

Feast of the Holy Innocents

Matthew 2:13-18

This is a tough one. The text is hard to read and appropriate.

King Herod versus the Magi.

Herod:

Works from his ego

His holding on to power motivates all

He looks and sees spies and threats and treason

The Magi:

Work from their humility

Their seeking motivates them to protect, honor, defend

‘You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs”

Sounds innocent enough. 
But isn't it a capitulation?
  
The story in Matthew’s Gospel highlights raw power

and what happens when fear and envy and power go unchallenged.

What do I do with threats?

What do they bring out in me?

Violence?

Frozenness?

Courage?

I am warned and reminded…the unnoticed, the seemingly unimportant, the completely vulnerable, the innocent…

Not expendable…

Beloved.