“Those who waited” – the Jihadis, hoping their act by its sheer magnitude would evoke heaven’s response. The Sword, the Writ, the Call, all those Sacred things capital S the Jihadis say they believe in. In reponse, the ordinary world, G-d’s blessing and purpose since the creation, the ordinary time that washes away human plans, and the infinite value of ordinary human life (the empty shoe), that sets to less than nothing the evil done against it.

If we also waited for a divine sign, we too were disappointed, unless we understood the ordinary dawn to be the sign, the ordinary day to be the chance for ordinary people to find justice, and to dispel the darkness.

We have the world we make. And everything we see, say, do, and hear is the mirror of our souls.

David Joslin