Finally, Jesus and the woman were there alone. Jesus stood up and asked her, "Where is everyone? Isn't there anyone left to accuse you?" John 8:9-10

Robert Bly, Things to Think:

Think in ways you've never thought before.
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message
Larger than anything you've ever heard,
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats.

Think that someone may bring a bear to your door,
Maybe wounded and deranged; or think that a moose
Has risen out of the lake, and he's carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom you've never seen.

When someone knocks on the door,
Think that he's about To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven,
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, Or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.

Where are your accusers?

When someone knocks on the door/Think that he's about/to tell you you're forgiven. This open graciousness lifts us up and contrasts sharply with the nipping, trap setting of the Pharisees which hounds and puts down. Of the internal critics that we carry around in our heads, is Jesus there? Is the Jesus of this passage there? Where would this Jesus be?

As I listen to this question and this response within me what desire or challenge is stirred within me? Is there a prayer or action that emerges?