How is the wheel to be mended?

The crushed wheel -

E rota phagi

When I saw this image on the Internet it made an immediate impact.  Something precious has been crushed by overwhelming force.  I was intrigued to see how the Roma would react if shown it at our weekly service. 

The very first thing they saw in it was an angry fist pointing upwards.   I pointed out that the blue represents the sky, and the green represents the green grass of the earth.  They still didn't recognise what I had seen.  I went on to explain that this was a broken wheel, thinking that they would then get it.  But they only saw the damage done to the broken wheel....

The Roma Flag - Wheel
Blue Sky - Green Ear

... only then did I show them this second image. The Roma Flag.  The waggon wheel travelling across the land with the blue sky above. A symbol of freedom.  Immediately they recognised their flag.  I went on to say how the life of the Roma people had been damaged by the gadgios [non-Roma people] over many centuries.  Who was going to repair what had been done?   

It strikes me the fist in the first image might be understood as a militant response of Roma activists.  "We are going to fight back!"  I suggested another interpretation:   

"God wants to repair the broken wheel.  Only he can do this.  He is doing this through those that believe he is a liberator-God, poised to set the captives free.  As this happens in our little Romani church, the lives of those who come will be changed. Luton will be changed.  The world will notice.  What the world has broken, God can restore.  This will be a sign to the world that God reigns."  

It's hard to know how this was received.  The pain may be so deep, so buried in the dust of the centuries, that the Roma cannot see what has happened in any kind of objective way.  But the room filled with silence for a few moments.  The sound of silence is very rare amongst the Roma. Someone is usually talking or laughing.  After the wind, the earthquake and the fire comes... the sound of sheer silence... God speaks....