Email

I have the opportunity to tell so many people about justice since I've been here. Here is an email I sent to one of my new friends after a conversation we had. He's in my new group of friends that I talk about on "da blog". I think it speaks for itself, for me, and plenty of others.


Hey friend:

This is what I mean this afternoon in class when I told you about this stuff. Now you know what my "deal" is and why I'm such a justice dork.

Some guy in our class named Eric today, came up to me in the caffeteria while I was sadly and unsucssesfully trying to purchase a coke. After providing the remedy for this problem, asked me if I had worked with the underprivileged before because of the comments in class I make about them and their rights. I used it to tell him the same thing.

This is my passion. You asked how I do it; how do I get it all done. The truth is, I don't. God helps me - this is his business I'm about: I'm just struggling to keep up with the spirit!

Gracias for my apple!

ps. I can't spell

"But again and again we were confronted with two unrelenting facts: First, the children were being horrifically abused before our eyes. Second, we all professed a faith that there was a God who loved these children and called us to do for them what we would want done for our own children. this was not a clever quiz on an ethics exam or a contrived piece of sensationalism for a shocking marketing campaign. This was the world as it really was, right in our faces. This was put up or shut up.. It was time to fasten our chin straps or get out of the uniform."


"How do you deal with all the atrocities against children you've seen?" someone asked him once.
"How do I not deal with it?" Mosier replied. "What am I supposed to do, curl up in the fetal position and surrender when I see cruel abuse? How would that help to get more victims free? What they need is a rescuer. We must be prepared to be that rescuer, regardless of the repulsive situations we find victims in."


"While there are millions of girls and women victimized every day, our work will always be about the one. The one girl deceived. The one girl kidnapped. The one girl raped. The one girl infected with AIDS. The one girl needing a rescuer. To succumb to the enormity of the problem is to fail the one. And more is required of us."

"the work of justice and freedom is the work of God, into which human beings are invited to participate. And in that work, the single most powerful tool we are granted is truth."

Isaiah 1:17: "Learn to do the right! Seek justice, rescue the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow."

Psalm 9: 7-12: " The Lord reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment. He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice. The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a strong hold in times of trouble. Those who know your name will trust in you, for you Lord have never forsaken those who seek you. Sing praises to the Lord, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done. For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted."

Psalm 12:5-6: "'Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,' sayeth the Lord. 'I will protect them from those who malign them.' And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times."

Pslam 10:16-18: "The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land. You hear O Lord, the desire of the afflicted: you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more."

"You have to get started somewhere, and once you start, you'd better be prepared to finish."
Elizabeth
President / Master of the Universe [in]
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