Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
It’s not fair.
It’s not fair that that wonderful family member who prays, serves, and tithes has cancer, and the awful person who just got sent off to prison for sexual abuse and who is healthy as a horse are loved equally by God.
It’s not fair that the evilest political leader in the world (select 
a name) and Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate for her advocacy of female education in Pakistan, are loved equally by God.
It’s not fair that people like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Koch brothers, and that woman who quit her lucrative Beltway bandit job to work for the Church are loved equally by God.
But they are.
Sure, actions have consequences, if not here, then when we face the Lord after death. But He delights and hopes for our hearts to be unhardened and open to His love and mercy. His hope for us springs eternal. May we open ourselves to accepting that hope… and believe that with His love, the very worst among us may be redeemed.
