Letter 4446
In the village there is a meeting in the square. We must determine who will lead us.
I arrive early, and help set up chairs.
Working with my fellows, we laugh and the work is done quickly. During the meeting, I feel as if I belong.
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Walking home through the meadow, I reflect: do we not all belong where we live? Why, then, do some have greater comfort than others? Let me pass on the belonging and ease you granted me, Lord.
Consider:
Can I welcome all?
Reading:
❖ “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” — John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Meditation XVII)
❖ “Community cannot feed for long on itself; it can only flourish where always the boundaries are giving way to the coming of others from beyond them — unknown and undiscovered brothers.” — Howard Thurman, The Search for Common Ground
❖ “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” — Hebrews 13:2 (KJV)
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~B.R.