Seeing The King's Speech brought to the fore two words, stolen dignity. Albert Frederick George Arthur was raised with established expectations of what he should have, what he should offer to his life of royalty.
It is so easy to demand of ourselves, and of our daily lives, that we be "equipped with" very basic tools by which to live. When our demands are not met, we meet an unwelcome guest--Stolen Dignity. Many speak with a seemingly cavalier spirit, in which they declare--demand--that we respect all human life. In the same spirit, many declare the dignity of all human life.
If I am misreading the intent of those, who so speak, I welcome the correction. I leave to God to know the true intent of such speech and thought.
Yet, I am called to share a very different form of dignity that speaks with a whisper, if that. What do we expect--demand--that we be equipped with in our body, mind, and emotion, so that we may share our gifts each day? How do we respond when our daily demands are not met?
Stolen Dignity. The withholding of such "equipment," and the deaf ear we are given in response to our demands, teeter at the brink in "Stolen Dignity."
How do we reclaim Dignity? What "equipment" are we to seek? What transformation are we called to seek, so that we may be blessed with Dignity?
With Stolen Dignity, we are stripped of our crisp, white shirts, and ascot-adorned coats. But, what is the prayer that transforms Stolen Dignity? How does that transformation appear to our eyes, and resonate within us?
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