The burden

“Like it or not, we have to recognize that perpetrators not only can commit physical, moral, psychological, and spiritual evil against their neighbors, but also are able to pose a trial (what power they seem to have!) that can try the very souls of their victims. ‘Christianity is a religion in which sinners have all the advantages,’ [Barbara Brown] Taylor exclaims; ‘They can talk bad about you every time you leave the room, and it is your job to excuse them with no thought of getting even. The burden is on you.’”—The Theology of John Wesley, page 190