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All this week I have been thinking about this idea for 2021. During the holiday season, I listened to some of the musical programs put on by Lutheran colleges. The one that was especially meaningful to me is/was from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. I have never been there, but the title of their program grabbed me. This year is the first one in which I was conscious of the hymn, “For Everyone Born.” If I heard it before, I don't remember. In the introduction to the performance of this hymn, the person who arranged it quoted Cornel West and that stuck. The quote is “Justice is what love looks like in public.” With the things I learned as an employee of the Department of Corrections and, since, in other areas, I learned how unjust our society is and all the systems within in it. Every day I seem to learn, see or experience something new. I hope having this as my word and the work I will do this year will contribute in some small way to justice and a way to express my love for others. I plan to work on this personally and also with organizations committed to justice, be it the Equal Justice Initiative, ACLU, The Innocence Project or The Marshall Project or local organizations here in Tulsa like Demanding a JusTulsa or the Terence Crutcher Foundation. --Carolyn
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