We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not
enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan
Swift
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You will know the Sacred Children
by the way, they love
You will know you are in the company of the transformed
because distinctions will disappear
There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave
or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ
Jesus.
How did we ever get trapped into “Us and Them”
Why do we let the prophets of hate and division
separate us, one from another?
We are trapped, it seems, in the narratives of division
Domination: Us over them
Revolution: Us overthrowing Them
Assimilation: Us absorbing Them
Purification: Us
eliminating them
Competition: Us
competing with Them (for resources we deem inadequate)
Victimization: Us oppressed by Them
Isolation: Us
apart from Them (let’s build a wall!!)
Thanks to
Brian McLaren for this list. Why did
Jesus Moses, the Buddha and
Mohammed Cross the Road?
There is no longer Jew or Greek
Slave or free
Male and Female
In or Out
Righteous and Sinner
White or BIPOC
No longer
We are one
Drawn together by Love, to love
We are called not to be apart
but to be together so that
“all nations on earth will be BLESSED by you”
Not dominated
Not destroyed
Not used
Not abused
Not “corrected” and controlled
but BLESSED!
We are to be instruments of blessing
Not because we are better
Smarter
Wiser
More powerful
But because we are filled with Love
and that love spills over and is poured out
Love as yeast
permeating, changing, transforming
everyone
everything
until there is no longer an “Us” and “Them”
Just one people
The People of Love
Blessing each other
Giving and receiving
Returning to original blessing
Finding a way back to the Garden
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