Emphasis Preaching Journal

In the metropolitan area where I live, I sense a growing weariness in doing good. It seems harder and harder to convince people not to give up doing what is right, from the governor of the state to the parishioner in the pew. After three decades of work for social justice, the times seem more unjust than ever. After three decades of working to revitalize our city, it is still sick unto death. After years and years of feeding and housing the homeless, homelessness is increasing. Among the workers, weariness abounds. It is a weariness born of hopelessness.