It's Been A While

It's been about a week since I've posted on this blog. I know, I know, I haven't been doing my duty to myself but I suppose I'll have to convince myself to get over it. :)

Well, I cannot even begin to tell you how beautiful the Law and Social Justice Conference was this weekend at Malibu. I stayed with the Caseys and I had my own room and my own bathroom and my own deck overlooking the Pacific, and I was so happy. The smell of the ocean has always calmed me, and the climate and the people remind me of home, even though it is indeed, so very very far away.

I'd like to take a moment to share with you something I heard this weekend which struck me to the very core. One of the panelists, Mary Ellen Burns, was a Catholic Sister with a Law Degree from Yale. She works in the inner city and frankly, she's one tough cookie. Anyway, she was talking about the parable in Luke of Lazarus and the Rich Man. Interestingly enough, as she pointed out, we don't know why the Rich Man was rich nor do we know why Lazarus was poor. One could just as easily have been a crook as the other. But Jesus doesn't tell us. He doesn't tell us, because he in fact doesn't care. Lazarus was a fellow human being, and crooked or not, the Rich Man is punished for ignoring his suffering - whatever the cause. You know why we got a savior? - because we needed one. We help and give because people need. Period. oh yah.