Daring to be Restless

“But this people is compromised.   They’ve been plundered and robbed.   They have lost – things, liberty, place, and name.   They are all trapped in holes and tucked away in prisons.   They’ve been plundered and depleted with none to the rescue.   They’ve been stolen away with none to insist, ‘Give them back.’” -           Isaiah 42:22, Voice The last several months have taken a toll on my soul.   In my job and in my personal life, I have become deeply acquainted with injustice and have witnessed institutional level ambivalence strip children and families of hope, of their voice.   I have seen the evil of apathy and convenience … and grown weary of it.   And perhaps that’s why reading this verse – it stirs something in me.   This verse is about our generation, about our culture, about the problems the world is facing today … and the God-given call to do something about it.   “This people is compromised.”   Like an agent on a secret mission who has been “compromised,”