Here is a part of the testing of Ubuntu that is quite necessary.
On a social scale, Ubuntu implies more than just a non-racial, non-sexist, and non-exploitative society. Rather it is a touchstone by which the quality of a society has to be continually tested, no matter what ideology is reigning. Ubuntu must be incorporated not only in the society of the future but also in the process of the struggle toward the future.
Here is a bit of what is vital to Ubuntu - "a society has to be continually tested, no matter what ideology is reigning." It is in that testing that we come to see how we have this grand propensity to turn-in-on-ourselves and think grand things about our group - our community - our nation. That is the very foundation of sin. To avoid such turning-in-on-self, we must continue to welcome the stranger and risk losing our notion of what is. That is not easy. That can be quite threatening. And yet, if this is not the way we move into the future, the future will just as the past was. To "struggle toward the future" is to be engaged in the present and the tension that exists when we do not simple go our own way but rather remain open to new ways. We must listen. We must speak the truth. We must bend. We must stand firm. We must be open to the gift of the other even as we hold onto the many gifts already at hand.
Connection: Could a possible questions for us simply be: how can who your are and what you bring with you be the beginning of a new life for both of us? Easier put down on this screen that done. Yet always within our grasp.
We walk into your future, O God, and yet we attempt to keep today just as we want it and have been able to make it up until now. Grant us courage to step into your pathway and find life in new forms as your future reaches into this day. Amen.
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