Unified or Divided?
God invites us to love. He asks each of us, who call upon His name, to stand up for and to kneel down in humility to serve others. Yes, I am called to be my brother’s . . . my neighbor’s . . . even my enemy’s keeper.
In the Genesis story of Cain and Abel, Cain cynically answers God by saying: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Cain obviously didn’t think he was. He was being a wise guy. Today he might have said, how the heck do I know - it’s not in my job description to keep track of him! Let’s be honest, there are plenty of days when just “keeping” our own life running is about all we feel we can handle.
So when you look into the face of another, friend or not, what do you see?
Do you see the things that unite us, or the things that divide us?
