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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