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Topic: COURT (02/24/22)
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By Linda Goergen
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My concentration centers on the spider. Simply trying to get food, the spider’s only guilt is choosing the wrong place. I wonder if she will be killed for her misjudgment, her ignorance. Justice is not always fair, inside, outside or in any window in-between.
I yank out my handkerchief and hasten my steps, telling the guard, “I’ll move her” as I see him flinching in his attempt to touch the spider. I move the spider to some bushes beyond the guards reach and I hear “Thanks, I hate spiders!” I’m glad I helped find justice for the spider today.
But what about my justice, will there be any for me today? Why should an ungodly judge decide my fate, when the only one worthy to judge me is Jesus! Did He ever need a license to fish? Simply trying to help feed a needy family; I, like the spider, am guilty of choosing the wrong place. My out of town neighbor sold his land, with its large stocked pond, and failed to tell me. How could I know…but the game warden deems my ignorance no excuse!
“I know the Bible says lack of knowledge can cause me trouble but Lord, You know my heart and my true intentions and I feel the fine is unfair! So I’m pleading to the court and need Your help Lord! I need justice today!”
Inside the courtroom, the Judge slams the two cases before me for wasting the court’s time with their trivial complaints, and it doesn’t go well for them. When I’m called; and the Judge turns her sour face toward me, informing me she’s read my complaint, and has noted my refusal to pay my fine; my confidence crumbles. I whisper a last, desperate “Help Jesus!”
What happens next unfolds in slow motion to my mind, but in reality transpires at lightning speed and without warning. From wherever it was hiding, a cat runs and leaps up and onto the Judge’s desk, causing her to jerk back, then her chair to tip back, as she shrieks a mindless “OOOORDER…”. Simultaneously, the in-court police officer appears to reach for a gun, as I scream, “Don’t shoot…it’s a cat, just a cat”. Time seems paused...paralyzed.
As some semblance of reality and sanity is restored, I tell the Judge that I had seen the cat slip in the door as I was coming in; but forgot about it after dealing with the spider. It turns out it’s the Judges own cat! It had slipped in and out of her car without her knowing, and then into the courthouse.
She holds that cat with a death grip, through my abbreviated hearing, and it never takes its eyes off of me. Its stare seems to will me to realize its perfectly timed entrance was a miracle.
I stand, still dazed, and then amazed as the Judge says “It’s your lucky day, I’m dismissing your fine. Get a fishing license and stay out of my court! Justice hijacked my court today, but never again!” Never one to know when to leave well enough alone, I snap indignantly “BUT Justice should rule the court everyday!”
The judge faces me with a chilling glare-grin, and responds “I SAID Justice HIJACKED my court today, because Justice is my cat’s name! If true justice had RULED, you would be paying a fine far greater than the one you objected to...so if you wish to further discuss...”
“NO…I’m FINE Your Honor” I rapidly reply; “SUPERFINE in fact...YEP...I’m just as fine as fine can be with my day in court!”
As I high-tail it out of there, I whine “Real funny Jesus, thank you, but real, real funny!”
“You made it a bit hard to get Justice in that court today” Jesus said “Get a fishing license, you are not ignorant of the need…”
“And...AHEM...were you questioning my...”
“NO...Lord I just...”
“Need to learn when to leave well enough alone!” Jesus finishes for me.
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I could see it as a scene in a very funny comedy.
Still grinning.