Beware of people who would be sole agents, arbiters, and avengers for your karma. Your “Judge Dredds.” In my opinion, karma is about more than inter-personal judgments. As Bob Marley might put it, sometimes you have to “screw face and bear it.”
As a Christian, I believe in more than karma anyway: grace for instance, “grace abounding” as John Bunyan (who wrote about grace from a prison cell as Boethius, mentioned yesterday, wrote about consolation from prison) and St. Paul wrote and as in John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” In this context, consider George Herbert’s “Love (3)”:
Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.
A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:
Love said, You shall be he.
I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
Who made the eyes but I?
Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.
And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?
My dear, then I will serve.
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat.