UNITY
“One love, one heart . . .Let’s get together and feel all
right”
Bob
Marley - Legend
We are not enemies, but
friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not
break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again
touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln (1st inaugural address)
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let us be one
in this world of hate and
division
in this world where politics
and religion
drive us apart
let us be one
the world is full of dividers
of people with power
and power with money
who want to divide us
for they know that divided we are
prey
and they are predators
They want us afraid
They want us angry
They want us to hate.
they want us to see others as
threats
as competition
as enemies
and so they deny others their
humanity
and make them vague and menacing
they steal their faces and make caricatures
and complicit we fail to realize
that when we rob others of their humanity
we lose our own
we are no longer in the image of
Love
we no longer wear our identity as
sacred children
we become people living in
darkness
our light has been stolen
but let us be one
for once upon a time
a light shone in the darkness
and the darkness
not even the darkness of empire
could overcome it
that light is embedded in each of
us
we carry that light
and we are called to walk in the
light
we are called to overwhelm the
darkness
in this time of division
as the power-hungry and greedy
seek to plunder our souls
we cannot allow the dividers to bury
our love
burn our hope
take all our light
we cannot let them separate us
for we are one
one
united by the One who is love
the One who is “over all and
through all and in all” (Eph 4)
bound together by love
our souls connected
this I think is the great work of
the Sacred
uniting
(or as Richard Rohr puts it,
“oneing”)
“God is always oneing everything, making
twos and threes and fours
and divisions and dichotomies and
dualisms into one.”
God is about helping us find
unity
union
wholeness
everywhere
the Sacred is about re-connecting
us (that is the meaning of the word religion, “re-ligio”)
to the ground of being (God)
to ourselves (our essential self)
and others (all others)
so that in the One
we are
one
one in hope
one in peace
one in joy
one in love
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