threats to disunity

I thought this short writing by Richard Rohr was appropriate in light of what posted yesterday. We must become a threat to disunity by creating pockets of subversive unified communities among us. This is the gospel.


As long as we think that we alone have to save the world, we become arrogant in our methods, impatient in our attitudes and quick in our solutions. We instead must seek the patience and peace of God. The man and woman of God are content simply to lay down their lives for some little bit of unity. Wherever you are, let God create unity. I believe that’s what God’s doing on earth. I know one sister who sees her primary call as bestowing “benevolent smiles” on everybody she meets. What a threat she must be to disunity.
If Jesus is to be risen among us, we must each individually and in groups together surrender to a love and mystery that is greater than our hearts. We must humbly admit that we really don’t know much at all. We have few right answers, it seems to me, and even fewer conclusions. All we can be is what Jesus was: present and enfleshed. In the end it seems to me there’s only one gospel: Jesus incarnate, Jesus crucified, Jesus resurrected.
To be in the Church is to be willing to be a part of the rhythm and create little bits of unity wherever we can.

-Richard Rohr, The Spiritual Family and the Natural Family