Demons. Not a likely topic for a meeting of psychiatric medical professionals. And the prescription — tossing demons onto the back of pigs and subsequently driving the pigs off a cliff — is equally unlikely. Yet who among us has not been taunted by a demon in some other disguise? ("I am not qualified, I can't do it, it is too hard." etc.) And, oh, the delicious relief when the wind blows the demons away.This is one of those passages that always makes me wonder about whether or not Jesus thought beyond the immediate results of his actions. I wonder what became of the swineherds who watched the livestock in their care run over the cliff and drown in the lake. I wonder about the people who owned the pigs and lost most or all of their livelihood. I wonder about their children.
The children we teach will come up with these wonderings on their own, so we need to in our own wondering to be prepared to encourage their wonderings and their conversations.
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