forty-two

“When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, ‘Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’” John 8:7

make us as eager

to offer grace,

as we are to hurl

stones of judgment;

to forgive another’s foolishness,

as we are to expect

you to look past our mistakes;

to gather the forgotten

into our embrace,

as we are to push

those we fear

away in disgust

© 2020 Thom M. Shuman