Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come closer to me.” And they came closer. He said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt” [Genesis 45:4, a portion of the OT reading assigned for this Sunday, the Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, RCL, Year C]. Simple words, spoken in an Egyptian palace, they carried the weight of decades. There were no dramatic flourishes, no accusatory tone—just a plain statement of truth that must have fallen like thunder in his brothers’ ears. They remembered what they had done. They had lived with that knowledge for years, watching their father’s grief, perhaps justifying their actions to themselves in quiet moments.…
"Dispatches to the Front" -- a collection of theological meditations by Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., M.Div.