At a smaller breakfast this morning sponsored by World Relief, Lynne Hybels shared her story of her own transformation.  In her words, if you’d told her ten years ago she’d be deep in the work of working for peace in Israel/Palestine and offering hope to the women of Congo, she’d have said you’re crazy.  But, now it’s true.  Her book is Nice Girls Don’t Change the World.

Two things started this journey for Lynne, one a trip to Amman, Jordan where she met Arab Christians for the first time, and the second was in 2008 hearing a story on NPR about Congo that briefly offered the statistic that in DRC, a woman is raped every 60 seconds.  Incredulous, she researched it, found it true and heartbreaking.  But it was ultimately a t-shirt that sparked her into actions that overcame her fear.

Watching a marathon, one runner was approaching her whose t-shirt read on the front:  “Done Watching”.  As the runner passed, the back of her t-shirt read, “Do It”.  And Lynn took it almost as a message from God, and got down to it, and is doing it.

At the same breakfast, some good words from Stephan Bauman:  “We are experiencing a radical redefining of justice today.  Justice is being reclaimed, stolen back from social and political camps, and rediscovered.  What is emerging is beautiful: a new and ancient justice, anchored deeply in the person and sacrificial love of Jesus and inseparable from the very essence of the Gospel.”