True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.