Daily Nonviolent Resistance

Dear God of groaning creation, Paul tells us that all of creation groans together, waiting — not passively, but with the aching expectation of a woman in labor. Romans 8:19-22 paints a picture not of a world resigned to its brokenness, but of a world straining toward something new. And You, Lord, invite us into that holy straining. John Wesley walked the coal-dusted roads of England and saw miners bent double, children laboring in darkness, and he did not look away.…