Engaging in the work of justice calls for tremendous faith to continue on despite misunderstanding and despite not seeing change. We can take heart, however, in the words of spiritual writer Joan Chittister who reminds us of the wisdom to be learned from observing the universe. They are so bright that they can be observed at distances more than 10 billion light years away from earth. Some of the ones we see, in fact, have been dead for several billion years and their light is just reaching the earth. When nothing you do seems to prosper, to take root, to grow, quasars teach us not to despair.
Some light comes later, long after it first dared to gleam.
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