making life, life

Saturday July 17th, Luke 10: 37 "The one who treated him kindly," the religion scholar responded. Jesus said, "Go and do the same." There, that doesn’t seem so hard now does it? Well it is not hard to understand but implementing it into action is something else again. As William Sloane Coffin puts it, “It is one thing to cry with the prophets of old to let justice roll down like an ever present stream, it is quite another to design the irrigation system.” For most of us it takes a life time to work on that irrigation system for God’s love and grace flowing through us and out into the world. For the children of God it is what makes life, well, life.