Reflections

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
~ Cornel West, philosopher/social critic

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, 1918–2008, The Gulag Archipelago

Sometimes, to overcome a hurdle before us, we don’t need to search for new truth or understanding of God so much as we need to live out what we already know.
~Amy Layne Litzelman, worship mentor/teacher

Let us wonder; grace and justice
Join and point to mercy’s store;
When through grace in Christ our trust is,
Justice smiles and asks no more.
~John Newton (1725-1807), Anglican pastor

This Sunday’s readings: Psalm 146:1-10