At a time when songs and messages are filled with "peace on earth" and "joy to the world", I'm finding it difficult to really grasp the hope of Christmas in light of the current state of our world. There is something entirely wrong when the most vulnerable and least in our society are preyed upon. When small children in Connecticut are repeatedly shot at close range; when women delivering polio vaccinations in Pakistan are attacked and killed; when BC sex trade women literally vanish into thin air and are treated as though they did not exist; when a 23-year old woman is gang raped in India where violence against women is largely ignored. . .we cry for justice!
In Luke 18:7 & 8a, Jesus said, "And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly."
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