JUDGMENT AND MERCY
All things God can do, but this thing He will not
Unbind the chain of cause and consequence,/Or speed time’s arrow backward. Then man chose
To know like God, he also chose to be
Judged by God’s values. Adam sinned, indeed,/And with him all mankind; and from that sin/God wrought a nobler virtue out for Adam,
And with him, all mankind. No soul can ‘scape
That universal kinship and remain
Human–no man; not even God made man.
He, when He hung upon the fatal tree,
Felt all the passion of the world pierce through Him,
Nor shirked one moment of the ineluctable
Load of the years; but from the griefs of time
Wrought out the splendor of His eternity./There is no waste with God; He cancels nothing But redeems all.By Dorothy L. Sayers
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