“My friend has a plaque hanging up in her kitchen “Everyone wants a revolution; Nobody wants to do the dishes.” Is there anything more true? I think my church, and my kids, and myself, I think we want to be radicals. I think we want to change. But we don’t want to do the work of actually doing the thing. I think for most of my theological life I believed that was okay. I believed what really mattered was my heart, that I professed with my mouth what Jesus really cared about. But the more I learn about Jesus—the one we are waiting for, who left his throne in heaven to become a helpless, brown-skinned refugee baby to a scandal-clouded mother in an occupied land—the more I think Jesus cares about what we actually do in the places we are right now.”
–Abby Norman, “Radvent – Day 16“
