Tweets - May 23rd - No Garden without Justice

There is no Garden without justice. There is no Garden without restoration. Christ said, "here is justice", and chose to raise up "Sodom" from the grave.

But there is no Garden without justice. The plundering, the lynching, the cheating, the justification for violence and murder, there must be restoration. There is no community of lovers if there is no justice and restoration for all the times your neighbor enslaved your fathers, or stole the copper and gold from underneath your feet, or bulldozed your home because you have different ancestors, or dropped bombs on your mother's head, or shot your son because he ran while black, or stabbed your sister because she was trans.

I eagerly wait for God, and I never have to know violence, and God has permitted me to have a say in God's decisions - because the Garden, the Earth, is as much mine as it is anyone else who clings to God. So you see the risk of Christ in choosing someone like me.

So then, what? Well, isn't it obvious? God will have a Garden, and what this means is that either 1) people, and businesses, and nations who pursue injustice and refuse to restore what they have destroyed (the people, the homes, the livelihoods) will encounter something like walking on searing hot coals until they walk the way of justice and restoration, or 2) God will cause them, their children, and their work to die, wither up and perish. God will have a Garden.

I can't figure out what the hot coals are or should be. I need more information. I'm not a fan of option 2, and it must be the absolute last resort because searing hot coals just wasn't enough.