We will continue to base the devotions on “God for a Secular Culture” by Jurgen Moltmann.
This week we will be looking at how knowledge of the ‘other’ leads to community in diversity.
It is Hegel’s dynamic dialectic of love which creates unity in division and division in unity, because it itself is the union of division and unity.
Beyond what we would like love to be…is a love that is greater than our imagination. Even in our greatest adventures of imagination, we fall short of the love that brings life to the Reign of God. For when we cannot tolerate division and otherness or when we are sweetly drowning ourselves in likeness, the Holy Spirit draws our attention to that which is not merely the way we would choose to live. Love, as is known through the stories of God’s love, never stops being creative and never ceases its interchange with the newness of the world we enter today. “…the union of division and unity.” That may be the beginning of a life adventure that will know no end.
Connection: The dynamic day at hand will bring us many opportunities to experience the love of God blossoming all around us. It would be good to take the time to witness its unfolding glory.
Lord God, take us by the hand and move us through our way of seeing this day so that we may see and experience that which is not like us and look again at that which is like us. In our looking, help us see your image. Amen
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