Friday!

Proverbs!

When the righteous triumph, 

there is great rejoicing, but when the wicked come to power, 

people hide.

Proverbs 28:12 CSB

My thought immediately went to countries and what we often see played out in the media. (When this Proverb was written none of what we call countries today existed.)

I do know that people hide from those with power. Especially small people, who we call children.

Children hiding in families because those who should care and nuture and love them, can't or won't.

People hide in relationships that should be equal but aren't.

This world is not (currently) as it should be.

But Proverbs is about the heart and asks me to wonder who is hiding from me?

Would anyone rejoice if I had power in some space or place?

How well do I use the power, the influence, the words, the authority that I do have?

We all have power. 

Sometimes we don't recognise it or see it as that, and perhaps this Proverb creates a little space for us to think about where we do have power and how we're exercising that today. 

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