Ploughshares out of swords
They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Advent begins with one of Isaiah’s wonderful pictures of the kind of transformation that this season announces. Swords into garden tools. What might be transformed in our communities? - knives and guns, into shopping trolleys and walking aids?
One of the great literal examples of such transformations is found in Mozambique where literal millions of weapons were turned into art, furniture and all manner of objects after the end of the civil war in the nineties.
There must be loads of images and footage to illustrate this week’s text, but then Isaiah paints should wonderful pictures, may be you won’t need one. Anyway, the stuff about Mozambique can be found on the Christian Aid web site or you can watch this video on YouTube, Tree of Guns.
I was in Mozambique earlier this year - was really interesting to watch this. Thanks.
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