The Criminal Under My Hat

We all want to put an end to injustice, but where shall we begin? What evil needs to fall?

Alessandro Solzhenitsyn wrote, “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” 

That being true, before I speak to others about the injustice in their hearts, “I must first catch the criminal under my own hat” (G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown).

Which is what Jesus meant when he told us to first pluck the beam from our own eye.

David Roper

6.12.20.