Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.

Rumi

Christ and the adulteress, 1751 Giovanni Tiepolo

“Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap,in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. John 8:4-8

Beyond right and wrong

Jesus' indifference here invites his challengers to move beyond debate, discussion and agenda and to address their attention to their own hearts, before God. The right conversation was an internal one, which judging from their silence and retreat, they eventually recognised.

Jesus' posture invites us to ask ...

What is the real conversation I (we) should be having (now)? and

Who is the right person to have that conversation with?