‘If there is one of you who has not sinned, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.’ If I don't, I will be counted among those who have sinned. Today we would surely stone, because it is fully right, and the law has to be fulfilled. 'In the name of mercy we cannot compromise justice,' goes the reason. Mercy has its nature, when it sincerely attempts to re-member the other into ones own self, into the body of Christ, and to God. How can the sinful, the condemned, the waste of the world be membered into my own very self? That is the challenge of mercy.
Susanna was innocent. But the truth of the powerful was the truth accepted by the religious and holy community. Truth cries out in the victims of injustice, and courage seeks for that truth which is revealed only when justice prevails.
Spirituality takes us face to face with hardness, mourning, brokenness, rising up, freedom of our lives. Many bear the burden of condemnation. How can we do the re-membering of those lives into our body without mercy? Often we rightfully condemn and seek destruction. Mercy seeks life, as truth opens the unknown web of sinfulness where the 'concerned sinner' thrown into.
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