Reflection for July 15

Love One Another

Peace begins with loving one another. Start with the people in this room…. Take what you have learned here about deep hospitality and keep moving toward the other. Maybe we can even figure out how to love everybody in this church. This reconciling work isn’t like BASE jumping – finding a thrill by stretching some rubber band that ties you to the earth. God’s mission is real faith work, the kind of trusting vulnerability that knows there’s only one rule to keep us safe, the spirit’s tether that will draw us into the arms of a Friend on the other side of that chasm. (Presiding Bishop The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori’s closing sermon to General Convention).