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“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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if I have it right

Jesus didn’t talk much about what we believe

he didn’t offer a creed

or a dissertation on the attributes of the divine

 

he did in fact reveal a lot about the Sacred

indeed, as it has been said,

Jesus did not come to change God’s mind about us

but to change our mind about God

 

but what Jesus did was offer us a new way of doing life,

of being in the world

 

and he lived it

 

that way of being present

listening

caring

healing

serving

fellowship

sacrificing

loving

 

we are called to do those things

because it is by living that way

that we MAKE way for God’s new thing

 

this is how we prepare the way for the Kingdom of Love

for that is what this is all about

a new heaven and a new earth

 

the intention of God is the salvation of history.

All creation

All people being made new

 

salvation is collective

and we live it out, but how we are with one another

 

this is why the way of domination

of coercion and retribution

the way of control

of “winning”

 

is so wrong

what do we “make” when we walk down that path?

we make winners and losers

rich people, but also poor people

powerful people, but also powerless people

 

but that is not the way of the kingdom

where all are gathered at the table

where people flow from north and south, east and west

to the mountain of God

 

cousin John (the Baptist)

gave a clarion call

prepare the way

make clear the way

 

that is indeed our calling

to do the right things

the loving things

 

to be agents of reconciliation

in a world of alienation

 

it may seem hopeless

we may feel hopeless

the powers and authorities

the “elemental powers” of the world seem so powerful (Colossians)

 

our actions are important

what we do, every, single, day

is important

 

So “So let us not grow weary in doing what is right,

for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up” (Gal. 6:9)