Everyone has some kind of inheritance; maybe and maybe not money, but also biological inheritance, cultural inheritance, memories of the way our father or mother or auntie or grandparent did things, or said things, things that have filtered through into our lives. Some people’s inheritance is quite meagre, though; one thinks, “what have I got, what history am I part of?”
Inheritance is a big deal in Judaism. In Sunday’s Lectionary, the writer of the letter to the Ephesians says that inheritance is a big deal for Christians too – not in the traditional way, but through Christ and the community of his people. Disinherited and disenfranchised people, the outsiders and people on the margins, can be something now, in Christ.