Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery.

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide

Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.

Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.

The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.

God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.