Mr and Ms Congressperson What Are You Afraid of?

Are you afraid of not getting re-elected? Or are you afraid of not having friends in high places? Are you afraid of not pleasing your economic masters?

Here’s a thought – take a look and Jesus and his followers; the archetypical public servants who went into communities and hung out with the marginalized, the disenfranchised and the poor and helped them. They created communities of help and hope and then moved onto the next community of need and started all over again.

They were not afraid to take on the secular, economic and political leaders and demonstrated better forms of leadership. They moved people from fear-based lives to liberated lives of service and community. They bound people together rather than pitting them against each other.

Religious leaders, we need to look back at those same service based communities and look for ways to work together with folk of different faiths and beliefs or even non-beliefs. We need to reclaim our religious identities by what we do and how we work with each other rather than highlighting our differences. People of faith you do Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Junior, a disfavor when you do demean each other and do not search for common ground.

The common good is meant for everyone. We find the Spirit of God dwelling where we work together.  We all belong to the same tribe.