How can thinking people just sit back and watch as things unravel around them? Just because it does not affect you directly does not mean it does not affect you eventually. There are no passengers on starship earth. We are all crew!
Is "justice blind"? I think #justice (not in criminal law) requires keeping your eyes open and actually seeing. Barring true sight, the path to true justice is lost.
Society tends to highlight risks and to recommend that we first practice mitigating anything that might go wrong, but that leaves us captive to fear, to "what if?" It ought not be so! Abandon comfort and attack the week with maximum effort!
There are many nations right now, my own included, embroiled in deep political divides. It's easy to dig your heels in; amplify every "misstep" of "them" to justify rage and violence. But divides are cured by establishing bridges of common ground. Bridges built from decency!
Trust is such a rare, precious commodity. Lack of trust, of confidence, from others leaves us isolated, unprotected. When that trust is given freely? When there is confidence? You can achieve most anything with those relationships! Be a trustworthy person!
Let's look in the mirror and ask if we have thought too highly or too lowly of the person we see. Remind that person they are the child of the most high God, and that He put them here to help others. We're not too good, or too bad, to succeed at that. We just need to reach out...
I couldn't quite figure out what his smile meant. Not until I got to the car where my reflection in the window revealed the dribble of cafe-mocha on my chin and hoodie. Yeah, it was probably that.
We have such the tendency in this world to tear down others, to point out their every slip-up. This stirs defenses and causes rifts -- it generates "them"s -- that hurt everyone involved. Better are words of encouragement that endear, that bring together -- that solidify "us"es!