“You will never find Jesus so precious as when the
world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the
midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.”— Scottish clergyman
Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843), letter of Mar. 9, 1843, quoted in Rev.
Andrew A. Bonar, Memoir and Remains of
the Rev. Robert McCheyne (1844)
(The image accompanying this post was taken by Lorie
Shaull on May 26, 2020, showing protesters along and around 38th Street in
Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd at the hands of arresting officers the
prior day. A memorial was made outside Cup Foods, where Floyd died. If America
has felt like “one vast howling wilderness” since Floyd’s death, I hope we will
remember Jesus’ message of nonviolent witness as the true path to change in our
world.)
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