Civic Duty

I thought I wanted to be on a jury. In retrospect, I didn't. It was relatively minor as criminal cases go, but I still had to hear several people tell of hurtful things. And finally, I helped send a man back to prison. So tonight the whole world seems broken and I'm anxious for the day when the One who made it will recreate it as it could have been.

To eat, to breathe
to beget
Is this all there is
Chance configuration of atom against atom
of god against god
I cannot believe it.
Come, Christian Triune God who lives,
Here am I
Shake the world again.

{Francis Schaeffer}