a failure of formation
To be formed is to be just. To be just, we must have compassion, hope, and community. Of those three - compassion, hope, and community - what's your small corner of the world needing from you today?
Isaiah 51: 4-5
Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations. My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations.
I read an article recently that wondered if we'd lost our way when it comes to moral formation. I have to admit, it felt... honest and convicting and worrying all at once.
The premise was simple, we're mean because we no longer have a communal moral compass.
I'm not pining away for a lost time or history. Most of what's behind us can stay there (especially the racism, sexism, homophobia, patriarchy, etc.).
I'm not calling for more of what passes for morality these days. You know, the self-referential garbage and virtue signaling.
No Isaiah says that instruction will go out from me, and in the same breath it's equated with justice.
To be formed is to be just. To be just, we must have compassion, hope, and community.
Of those three - compassion, hope, and community - what's your small corner of the world needing from you today? What's one small way your life might instruct others?
—Jason Whitehead