[Mrs. Don-o]

I do think that a good, just society would be characterized by a pervasive sense of graceful obligation: the sense that we are, and possess, and are surrounded by, multiplex gifts, which we experience before our infant hearts can conceive from whom they come, or why.

A society pervaded by this "filiality" would be just and good, but it is a justice never perfectly expressed on this earth. We live with, at best, some approximation of this justice. We enact, at best, some approximation of it. We desire it.

Hungering and thirsting for justice is as good as it gets in this life. Those who hunger and thirst are called "blessed."

[Tax-chick]

Those who hunger and thirst are called "blessed." For they shall be satisfied.

During Pat's school meeting, I was translating next Sunday's lectionary; it helps me with my grammar and vocabulary, as well as focusing the mind. In the first reading from Baruch, it says (my translation), "God will give you a name forever: 'Peace in justice and glory in reverence'."