Gospel: Matthew 13: 47-53
It is often said that one man's trash is another man's treasure. An academic might have little use for a garage full of tools, while a mechanic would find little value in bookshelves, and yet each would find the other to be important and valuable to their work. Utility, of course, is only one measure of a thing's value, and not even the most important factor.
We have discovered over time that what we have found to be of no value in point of fact does have use. Things can be recycled and repurposed. Weeds can be composted and made into good soil with kitchen scraps. Even trash can be used for fuel in order to heat homes, provide a flame for cooking, and the ashes used for compost to help make new soil. Everything has value, everything has use.
We who are the creators of mass graves, genocide, total warfare and weapons of mass destruction, capital punishment, and slavery - we who declare individuals and entire races as worthless and beyond redemption - we who would subject others to these horrors but would object if done so to us - we are not in any position to judge the worth of anything or anyone.
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