Justice Irritation

Because I'm often asked how I, or Epic, has developed a heart for justice, let me say this. The first step is simply letting things bother you, to even notice: The hungry, the poor, the marginalized, those abused by the system, or those just plain abused. Your conscience (or the Spirit) becomes like an irritant in your spirit, in your field of vision, on your pocketbook, on your schedule. And over time, over many years, as you do something about it, that nagging conscience, you discover that the irritant has become a pearl, the pearl of great price that you are willing to do a great many crazy things to have. You have the pearl, but the pearl also has you. God has you.