I need your help to stay the course. When one is confronted with the issues I've seen just over the last week...of poverty and incarcerations...your view of life changes. As you continue to think about the larger world and the overwhelming need you begin to think differently about your life. But...
Have you ever been on a missions trip? Ever went to a different country and been impacted by what you've seen? When you come home, something stirs in you for a bit...but then where does it go? The people you share it with don't quite understand it, although they enjoy hearing how God's worked in your life...but they don't identify. Getting the picture...?
To live more justly, then, requires more than you. In a way it requires a community. It takes people challenging you...spurring you on...identifying with you. I think one of the biggest cripplers out there to changing living habits in the areas of justice is the lack of identification and conversation: we're islands somewhat. What I need are people who I can share similar experiences, convictions, longings with. The synergy created there drives me to keep on.I'm grateful for a few folks to do that with...although I don't see them often enough. They are relatives and fellow pastors and friends. The point is this journey gets bewildering at times, and it's necessary for us to have folks to live and think justly with.
