JUST MERCY

What an incredible, incredible book. For the way it reveals brokenness and healing at the same time through the life of one and of many… What a gentle yet urgent wake up call to pay attention to the injustices of this world, the reality of the brokenness, and the call to have love and mercy in all that we are and in all that we do.

Some quotes:

“I do what I do because I’m broken too.”

“…our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared volunteer ability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion… we can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.”

“But simply punishing the broken— walking away from them or hiding them from sight— only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too”

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done”

“But today, our self-righteousness, our fear, and our anger have caused even the Christians to hurl stones at the people who fall down, even when we know we should forgive or show compassion…we have to be stone catchers…(but) it hurts to catch all them stones people throw”

When I’m tired, tired, tired, I will be brave, brave, brave.