And we remember, without I hope stretching the image to the point of breaking, that salt is a seasoning, and if you put too much of it into a dish it becomes offensive. In truth though, this is really a very provocative image if you press it very far at all. What this suggests to me is that the work we are called to do is relatively modest, and very much doable, providing, as per our first point, that we remember that we are in fact called to do it. Thugs beat up an elderly woman, rape her, and kill her husband. Vandals paint hate on a synagogue wall.
Terrorists blow up a subway train.
A convicted war criminal ignores massive public protests against the tyranny of his reign over a nation. Millions of refugees starve. Highway accidents maim innocent people. Floods rage through towns. Deliberately set forest fires destroy trees and homes.