Economics is a Matter of the Heart

The Tzoltzil indigenous group in Chiapas, Mexico have a way of greeting that says, “How is your heart today?”  They often reflect on the condition of one’s own heart as well as the heart of another. For them all of life stems from the heart as each of their daily activities must be done “from the heart.”  Whether that is caring for the children as a way of preparing the way for future generations, planting seed, harvesting corn or coffee and working in cooperation with others for the benefit of the whole community.

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Metanoia Newsletter, November 2008

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Features:

• Our current economic crisis
• Fear-based human economy versus a faith-based divine economy
• Comments on Reading the Bible Economically
• The perfect holiday gift

A Time to Care

The first time I went was Holy Week, 2000. Some of us visited Tzajalchen, a remote mountain community of a few hundred indigenous people who had lost family and friends in a Dec. 23, 1997, massacre. On that day they heard the gunfire on mountainsides across the valley. Hours later their worst fears were confirmed. Even so, they were resolutely committed to nonviolence. Though agreeing with the Zapatista objectives, they shunned weapons. They called themselves the civil society of Las Abejas (The Bees). Like bees in a highly functioning community around their queen, so, they reasoned, were they around their Divine Queen.

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