J is for Justice

jus·tice

ˈjəstəs/

noun

1. just behavior or treatment.
2. fairness, justness, fair play, fair-mindedness, equity,evenhandedness, impartiality, objectivity, neutrality,disinterestedness, honesty, righteousness, morals, morality

Justice is balance.  The symbol of justice has been a blindfolded woman holding scales.  Well, it isn’t about the woman, it isn’t about the blindfold.  It is about balance.

Balance is equality.  The definition of balance is: an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.

Of course we don’t have “justice” right in our societies or in many of our communities because we do not have this right in our family structures. (I am talking about my own community of course.)  

There is an order to life and this order is; balance or Justice.

When anyone of us fails to adhere to this order we throw life off balance. Family members who do not hold themselves accountable to the other family members throw their families off balance.   Unfortunately, this information isn’t taught in the churches that I have attended (or listened to on the television channels). Most of them are focused on acquiring financial wealth both for the church and often encouraging its members to do the same for themselves.  Justice isn’t a conversation or a sermon unless it comes up around a specific event.

Justice has become a political buzzword.  Of course this approach is off balance too. So when a police “officer” (who is supposed to be upholding “just” laws) abuses his personal power (the simple power of making a decision), the general public pours into the streets crying “No justice no peace!”  Things get worse because none of the parties engaged has any true concept of justice.  What they want is revenge or payback for the ugly display of injustice or lack of balance on the part of the person who pulled out his gun and killed someone.

This unbalance makes people angry (taking them off center) and the lack of “someone to tell and receive a fair and balanced judgement about it, keeps us running around in chaos.

To end the injustice or the off-centeredness of our society, we  ALL  have to cease and desist in the madness that we call society. We don’t have to be aggressive at all. We do have to be balanced. When a major event happens, the first call is usually for calm, not panic, not action without judgement or thought. In theory we abhor “mob” behavior especially when it turns violent.  But “mob” behavior is thoughtless behavior, whether or not it is “black Friday” where people get hurt in the herd like behavior of human beings or whether it is the sickening “lynch mob” behavior where someone will be tortured and killed.  It’s all bad, off balance, chaotic and when the “scene” is over no one is truly happy at all. Those who've caused the imbalance and opened the call for revenge, know internally that at some time the balance of that behavior must be restored. It is the divine order of the universe. That is why we are instructed not to judge others. We are so imperfect (and perfectly imbalanced) that we cannot deliver true justice.

Justice in the world begins with each one of us.  It begins with the personal agreement with one’s self to be still, become balanced in every area of life. Imagine if everyone in the world held true to that commitment?  Here is the thing, one person being just is NOT ENOUGH to change the world. We all have to be just... balanced.

Be well and be happy and be justice!