Moving for God: The dilemma of diversity
There’s the classic clip-art picture of children representative of every race, nation and language joined together and singing songs of world peace. And then, many of us are familiar with rainbow buttons proclaiming cheery slogans like “Celebrate Diversity” and “Better Together.”
More importantly, there’s the vision that God’s reign of peace and justice will be known in every corner of humanity, an image that we really believe in, that we pray about and dedicate our lives to. We believe it is to come and is also right now:
God’s dwelling is with the human race. He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will always be with them as their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain, for the old order has passed away.
– Revelations 21:3-4
We each have a role, a part to play, in the building up this reign of God. Like Paul says, we all are…
[This is the beginning of my latest column for the online newspaper, Global Sisters Report. Continue reading here.]
Thanks, Julia, for the train image. As a Bronx NY native, my subway riding metaphor for a returning missionary was jarring: express trains passed and locals stopped on parallel tracks. Sometimes one seemed to being moving backward ! Now the 25 yrs ‘away’ blend with the differences you speak of. Peace ! Eileen T