Justice

We shake our heads at the violence done to one another.

This is not what we expected, not how we want to be treated.

Remember to pray, remember to stand together as a body.

We are Christ's body and if one of us is broken, we are

All broken. Stand strong together, go with one another.

Pray deeply for a peace beyond ourselves because it

Doesn't exist here in the places where hearts hold onto

Real and imagined hurts. The only way forward is

Through being a body to the world. It is how it has been.

How it should be not as hurt filed against hurt. Yet somehow

Injustice surprises us in this imperfect world and it shouldn't.

Because injustice lives when we don't know how to forgive,

When we don't know how to speak peace, when we don't know

How to surrender and we think our way is the only one right,

When we don't know how to foster dialogue with one another

That might heal the wounds and finally begin to see the dawn

Of justice. Born in the death of our perfected ideals.