When I die and stand before Jesus Christ who is my God, he isn't going to ask me about anyone else. He won't ask me about the two men who live in the neighborhood who got married. He won't ask me about the unmarried young woman with the baby, or the girl I heard had an abortion. He won't ask me about the atheist I met at a summer gathering. He won't ask me about the Jews or the people of color. He won't ask me about the woman who feels more comfortable as a man. He won't ask me about the parish woman I know who left the Catholic Church and now goes to the Episcopal Church on Sunday. He won't ask me about the Catholic couple who got divorced and remarried outside the Church without annulments. He won't ask me about the Republicans or the Democrats. He won't ask me about the co-worker's son who wound up in jail. He will only ask me how I loved these people. That requirement is written in the book he holds in Father Zenon's icon.
N.B. The gist of this paragraph came to me from a friend who received it from a Quaker friend unknown to me. Adjusting it a bit, I've added the Christ-dimension, changed the pronouns from "you" to "me. Expanded the examples and added Father Zenon's icon of Christ the Teacher.
