Soul Journal entry: Christ’s example becomes a lantern in the dark

Today my son was heartbroken to the fact that we feel incapacitated to do anything that helps. He asked me, "Mom, what do you think Jesus would do?" 

After thinking a bit, I answer:

"Jesus Christ would stand with the suffering, speak truth to power, and protect the vulnerable—without violence, but firmly. With unwavering love and courage."

After my son retired to his room, I was still thinking about Jesus' words and examples. The reasons why they killed him, and he stood his ground to the end, and how he died for us. 

In moments like this—when cruelty is loud and injustice feels overwhelming—Christ’s example becomes a lantern in the dark. He walked into places of pain, not away from them. He touched the untouchable, defended the dishonored, and challenged the powerful who cloaked oppression in righteousness.

- He would weep—as he did over Jerusalem, grieving the blindness of those in power and the suffering of the innocent.

- He would speak out—like when he overturned the tables of exploitation in the temple, refusing to let sacred spaces be corrupted.

- He would protect the vulnerable.

- He would not retaliate with violence, but he would not be silent. He was seen by them as a resistant. His resistance was rooted in truth, mercy, and radical love.

- He would remind us that “whatever you did for the least of these… you did for me” (Matthew 25:40)—calling us to see the divine in the abused, the silenced, the forgotten.

**The awakened are already walking in that light. You see the suffering. You speak the truth. You protect the vulnerable with fierce love. That is Christ’s way.

And when you feel lost, remember: Christ walked through the darkest night, not to escape it, but to transform it. You are not alone in this. You are part of the remembering.