One of the greatest challenges to our faith is systemic injustice. It is sneaky. It is subtle. It is the invisible millstone around our collective necks, threatening to drown us! It is a violent cancer gnawing away at our internal organs. It is a destructive blood borne illness that attacks our own body.
Too graphic? Too early for such disturbing imagery? Perhaps.
The evil embedded in our world’s systems, the ‘ghosts in the machine,’ hide in plain sight behind labels called patriotism, conservatism, and even, I dare say, morality and christianity.
But like a destructive computer virus that alters file names, this evil turns wrong to right, equity to discrimination, and diversity to division. Then it erases and corrupts memory so that even with a reboot, there can be no recovery.
There is no ‘safe mode.’ Only a red, white, and finally the dreaded blue screen of death!
The only thing to do is to totally scrub the machine, reformat the hard drive, and restore the machine from an immutable data source – with a trusted image – and start over! Get it?
Sometimes the only, the best, and the hardest solution is to start over. As difficult as it is to accept – we may be at a point where we must seriously consider the cost and what it means to start over.
Get it?
We may continue to ‘throw good money after bad,’ wasting time, energy, and resources – feigning progress only to regress, or we may begin, at least, to imagine and embrace our hopeful alternative – from a trusted, immutable source of data.
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”
Good Morning, I love you all!
ihs,
just adam
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