Isaiah 1:16-18

Mid-October Snow in Aspen

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your doings
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil,
learn to do good;
seek justice,
rescue the oppressed,
defend the orphan,
plead for the widow.
Come now, let us argue it out,
says the LORD:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be like snow;
Isaiah 1:16-18

When we fail, as we surely will, to open our hearts to the needs of those who are broken, on the margins, the poor, those who suffer from injustice; when we judge them as lacking of our what is required for our attention, empty of worth; then together let us seek forgiveness, turn from our selfish ways, and find forgiveness in our repentance and the transformed life that has been gifted to us and shown to us in and through Christ Jesus.