TOGETHER
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you
keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each
other out of separate trees.
T.H. White, The Once and Future
King
… through the Trinity [Sacred] we transcend us-them,
in-out thinking. Imprisoned in our old
familiar dualistic thinking, we were always dividing the world into mine and
yours, one and other, same and different, better and worse. In the Trinity, we move beyond that dualism
so that mine and yours are reconciled into ours. One and other are transformed
into one another.
Brian
McLaren, We Make the Road by Walking
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those
who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one,
Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.
Jesus,
Upper Room Discourses
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we wander cautiously into the world of Advent,
onto that long and winding road
through the land of already and not yet
it is bewildering
our insistence that unto us a child is born
a Prince of Peace
while we watch the world burn
and people strive
and wait
praying “thy kingdom come”
thy kingdom come on earth
it seems so very dark
this place we dwell
this path we walk, stumbling
and we are afraid of the dark
and in fear we lash out
we bite and devour one another,
we consume each other like predators
we have let the world squeeze us into its mold
we have been programmed
to the world in terms of us and them
in and out
mine and yours
we are the children of Babel
screeching incoherently at each other
while we clutch our guns
our Smart TVs
our fear and hate
but this is not the original design
and our journey, though perilous and frightening
is toward a dawning of a new day
a return to Eden
for Advent is a journey toward reconciliation
of human creatures to Love
of human creature to human creature
back to original blessing
where “mine and yours are reconciled into ours,”
and “one and other are transformed into one another.”
one thing is clear
as we embark upon this trek
this long night’s journey into day
at the end
we must all get there
together
