Stonecatchers

In his book, "Just Mercy," by Bryan Stevenson, which is all about our criminal justice system or lack thereof, he refers to people who are "stone catchers."  This goes back to the Bible story about a woman caught in the act of adultery for which capital punishment was death by stoning.  Stone catchers are those people who act in ways to prevent such things from happening by acts of mercy for instance.  Stone catchers get in the way of systems that seek to punish people with death for their offenses.  I think that whenever we simply decide to not judge another person for their imperfections, much less the color of their skin, or their economic status,  we are stone catchers.  Whenever we walk away from gossip we are stone catchers.  We are all wounded in some way or another.  Judging others might be but a bandaid on our own wounds.