He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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The teenagers in my confirmation group know the difference between talking about the right thing and doing the right thing. You don't have to have tons of life experience to begin to see the disconnect in how we talk and what we do. Justice, love, humility are noble words that when dropped into a sentence, the audience applauds and then goes back to sitting and watching. The twitter-version of the confirmation lesson for the evening was on justice: Being a Christian means going out of your own way to help a stranger. That is justice. That is loving kindness. That is walking with our God.
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Move us, Lord, from talking to action. Amen.