Second Wednesday of Advent

Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they?  Has no one condemned you?"  She said, "No one, sir."  And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you.  Go your way, and from now on do not sin again."  John 8:10-11

when others notch
      their arrows
   to judge us, you
cut the strings on
            their bows,
   so their barbs
     fall useless in
the dust where
you have written
   sola gratia

(c) 2017 Thom M. Shuman