Advent 2. December 13. Luke 13.

https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Luke+13 (click the link to continue the story).

Bad things happen.  We assign blame in order to make sense of tragedies. But sometimes we are victims to forces we cannot see or control, systems of injustice and oppression that create conditions for tragedy to happen.  Mining accidents come to mind.  We are not supposed to assign blame, but offer assistance.  We create the rules that create the conditions that cause suffering.  We create barriers that prevent us from supporting, helping, or caring for someone else.  We build walls and ghettos and even gated communities.  Segregation was a legal policy that denied non-whites access to economic opportunity, education, employment, housing, and health care. Many whites never viewed it as unjust because they never saw or experienced the conditions of their non-white "neighbors".  Out of sight, out of mind.  Justified by prejudices and negative biases that supported segregation, kept people apart and disadvantaged people based on race.  Humans have a great capacity to punish. 
Sometimes doing justice requires that we break the rules, when the rules are bad rules that harm others.  According to Luke, Sabbath-keeping had become a rule that harmed some people, by preventing others from providing support and help to them.  Sabbath becomes a privilege for the well and the well off.  It becomes a burden for those who never get a break from pain, from shame, from labor.  Segregation prevents us from seeing the needs of the other.
Jesus sees.  He sees a woman bent over and he liberates her.  There are really two Torah commands around Sabbath---one based on Genesis 1 in which God the creator rests and commands us to rest. (Found in the ten commandments in Exodus 2).   And one from Exodus in which God liberates the people from slavery in Egypt. (Found in Deuteronomy 5).  Jesus ignores work prohibition (Genesis 1) in order to liberate a suffering child of God.   This is how God acts.  Always for the broken ones.  Always to bring relief, mercy., and comfort to those who are in pain or struggle. 
The Kingdom of God is not an army, a castle, a royal family, or treasury filled with gold.  It is a seed, like yeast in the dough.  The kingdom of God is organic, present and hidden, subtle yet alive, working its way, becoming, emerging, growing.  It is in the smallness, the seemingly insignificant that God comes.  God has a greater capacity to heal.