About KMH

Peace and Justice Facilitator 

Karen Marie Hedlund has received national training to become a facilitator in several different areas of Peace and Justice including racism, hunger/poverty and domestic violence.  Her most recent training was provided by the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) in their Equipping for Peacemaking series.  She currently serves on two ELCA – New England Synod task forces:   Healing the Wounds of Racism, and Justice and Ministry for Women.  Karen Marie’s facilitator training began when she was a student at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, as a member of their Leadership Effectiveness and Awareness Team.  She is an active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Attleboro, MA, serves on their Social Ministry Committee and is on their ONE Campaign team.

OJ and Justice

Yes, I have demeaned myself by watching truTv this afternoon to see if OJ was going to get the maximum sentence for his little robbery in Las Vegas a year ago.  I gotta tell you that the minimum of what 7 1/2 years is not enough if you ask me, especially since he wrote a book entitled If I Did It.  And don’t give me the garbage about this trial having nothing to do with the murder trial 13 years ago.

If he wasn’t found guilty in the civil trial, he never would have had to ask his family and friends to hide his memorabilia from the Goldmans, so that they could begin to collect on their settlement.  OJ was trying to skirt the law by hiding assets, he wanted his stuff back, and he broke the law in trying to get the stuff back.

So what have we learned.

1) Don’t murder your spouse.  That’s just wrong!

2) Things are just stuff.  They’re not worth breaking the law for.  You can always get more stuff.

3) If you think that you are God and that the world revolves around you, eventually the world collapses, because your shoulders aren’t strong enough to hold up the world.

4) If you are patient enough, justice comes.  Not vengeance.  Justice

And now you may clap.