Dancing upon injustice.
A lot has been on my mind and heart lately. The move is coming up, I’m trying to finish things on the house and we are working hard to help with the leadership transition for the Hope Center.
It would be easy, well easy isn’t the right word. It would be convenient to just push through these next three weeks and make sure everything gets done on time. Anyone who moves from a house knows there is usually a whole lot more involved in the move then originally anticipated. No matter how many lists or budgets or Google calendars we make to help us organize something is always bound to come up. It can be the same for a job, a position, a ministry or volunteer opportunity. Now is definitely one of those times.
One of the things I enjoy about my wife is the same thing that kind of lured me into falling for her to begin with. She loves to hate injustice. Not just social injustices (human trafficking, poverty, lack of adequate water/food); although that’s her specialty, rather she hates all injustices. It could be someone showing up late, a child who doesn’t know how to read or the sanctity of marriage.
Jesus’ taught that the entire law of God can be summed up with two things: to love God with everything you have, and to love your neighbor as yourself. Josh McDowell explains the love as simply protecting and providing for. The love interest could be your relationship with God, your own personal well being or a loved one. Katie helped me with this concept during this past weekend.
She saw, where I did not, a potential for injustice in our marriage by us not having much time for each other over the next few weeks. So she sprung into action and planned a 5 hour road trip to Gulf Shores, Alabama. A quick night of camping, a few hours at the beach, then back to the dirty dirty to finish up our time in Louisiana.
There are many people in the world who are into the trends of fighting for causes. But there are few people like Katie, who not only fight all injustices big and small, but thrive to see them brought to the light and fixed. There is a song called “Did you feel the mountains tremble?” It is an older song, but a powerful one nonetheless. There is a line in the song telling of “dancers who dance upon injustice.” There are those who get caught up in trends, and usually get caught up in something else. Then there are those who thrive, who dance upon injustice.
