seeking ways more just of sharing and of ordering human
life.
Fill us with a glowing vision of this world as it should
be;
send us forth to change that vision into blest reality.
---Joy F. Patterson, 1994
To be called to Christianity is to be called to labor. We
are to take up a shared yoke, plowing shoulder to shoulder with Jesus in the
humble chores of the household of God. We are to serve wholeheartedly, to share openhandedly.
We are not called to be peacekeepers, holding together some uneasy truce between
suspicious adversaries with tape and twine and suspect promises. Rather we are
to aspire to peacemaking, to the
bold and audacious task of reconciling brokenness and doubt with trust built on
God’s abiding love. This vision,
this dream, is one that can set the world right.
But, sisters and brothers. There are teeth in this gospel
call. In addition to the courageous labor
of service, peacemaking, sharing, and dreaming, we are called to more. We are
called, relentlessly, to the
dogged pursuit of justice—the
justice we seek out of a knowledge of God’s overflowing love for each and every
one of us, least to greatest.
So my friends, don’t you get tired. The vision of a just
world is urging us on—and justice can set things right.
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