How often do you experience outrage? Do you make a distinction between outrage and rage? This would be a distinction without a difference. Do you think there are situations that demand it? You could be right, but is your rage a part of an effective solution to the problem? It rarely is. If it isn’t, then this rage is a burden you can’t bear. There are those who are chosen vessels who have the calling and the grace to respond effectively to situations of injustice without letting it consume their souls. For tasks that are not given to you, avoid walking on the path that leads to rage.

Do you meditate? This has been a Biblical practice going back as far as Old Testament times. Do you think of meditation as analysis, or as protracted background thinking about things you have studied? Do you think meditation takes place more in your head or in your heart, or are there different versions of it? It is recorded that after Mary received some amazing news from an angel she pondered these things in her heart. She couldn’t really share this news widely. This isn’t a story you would buy from anyone else.

Have you ever played hide and seek? Have you ever looked for me and thought that I was hiding from you? Yet you have my promise that if you seek me you will find me if you search for me with all your heart. There is a beneficial purpose in the process of seeking. Would you like a clue? I told you that inasmuch as you were kind unto the least of these you were doing it unto me. Is this what you expected? Do you see my presence in the poor, the downtrodden and discouraged, the sick and disabled and rejected? Behold I am with you always, and the poor you have with you always as well.

Do you realize that I lived my entire life on earth in a country occupied by an aggressive foreign military power? How much of my ministry focused on this issue? One of my followers would have liked me to give this more emphasis, but my message was about the Kingdom of God rather than about the kingdoms of this world. When the question was put to me at the end of my life I said that my kingdom was not of this world. If it were my followers would have fought for me, but they did not. You are my follower also. What lessons and guidance do you draw from this about involvement in politics?