I attended a service last night and had this from Thomas Merton laid in front of me: “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.” This reminds me of a C. S. Lewis quote I can’t locate right now. The gist of the Lewis quote is that when we are standing on a dock holding a lifesaver (not the candy, the floating ring) and see a man drowning in the water in front of us, we don’t, prior to tossing out the lifesaver, demand a reasonable explanation as to why or how the man got in the water in the first place if he couldn’t swim.
Toss the lifesaver, damn it!
It occurs to me... 