For the world to learn to live together despite our deep differences is the fundamental challenge of our time, but it doesn’t mean we leave the challenge to our political or religious leaders. The acorns and seeds of reconciliation must be planted and nurtured in small communities and groups throughout the world. If within these small groups we can figure out how to disagree without dividing we will have much to offer the world. It begins with conversation and listening, but that in itself is not an outcome. It is simply a path to understanding, a way of beginning to travel together.
We can change through conversation not necessarily in the way we think but in how we act. We are all children of God and although we may worship in different ways and believe in different things, it is that commonality, that relationship with God, that can form the basis and inspire us to find ways to live together. Consider your relationships with your relatives, you may disagree on everything, but that commonality of family allows us to find a way to coexist in relative peace. (Bad Pun).
Reconciliation begins with finding commonality. What we all have in common, regardless of our respective faith, is that we all are God’s children. It is a beginning.
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