He remembered the bread.
He remembered his sick mother.
And most of all, he remembered the judge who had given him a second chance.
Adam smiled.
He said:
“Tell me why you stole the food.”The man lowered his head.
True justice is not only about punishing people for their mistakes. Sometimes, true justice is giving them a chance to become better.
And that one act of kindness, in a crowded courtroom many years earlier, had changed not just one life…
It had created a man who would spend the rest of his life changing the lives of others.
