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Overthrow Judgment, Liberate Love.
My friend, mentor and partner in the crazed writing habit, Nicole, informed me about this project to which I immediately committed. There’s something about the ‘worst of these,’ that challenges all of our assumptions about the realness of forgiveness and the transformation of redemption.
So. Who wouldn’t you forgive? Casey Anthony?
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Personally, I find the process of dehumanization fascinating. Particularly in how media, spin, and rhetoric make dehumanization happen without the participant ever being aware of it. We see this in the macro scale of genocide, and in the micro scale of fractures and subsequent deadening in interpersonal relationships.
Casey Anthony seems to be an abomination of all that is maternal, loving and compassionate. As she seems so quick to dehumanize her own child, I wonder about my own ease into demonizing her into something less than human.
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May the Good Lord shower His Good Grace upon my head for how I think of her, something similar to an animal. And may my own head be reminded that justice of the courts is not what I ascribe to. But justice that is seasoned with mercy, justice that knows redemption and reconciliation, more than it knows retribution and punitiveness.
By these heavenly and compassionate standards of justice, I see this woman differently. I see her fallen and desperately alone. I see God mourning her choices, her loss, and her isolation.
I try my damnedest to believe no one is beyond forgiveness. I don’t believe this, because I cannot believe this without risking my entire faith on a sham of limited grace and fair & balanced equity.
#neverbeyond
