FINDING THE STRANGER

                    (~GOSh.~)

THE HOLY COMPASSION OF GOD

"If you love the justice of Jesus Christ

more than you fear human judgment,

then you will seek to do compassion,

 Compassion means

That if I see my friend and my enemy

 in equal need,

 I shall help them both equally. 

Justice demands

that we seek

 and find the stranger,

 the broken, the prisoner,

 and comfort them

 and offer  them our help.

 Here lies the holy compassion of God .

~ Mechthild of Magdeburg

(12th century Mystic)