“You have never talked to a mere mortal … your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.” — C. S. Lewis
Your neighbor.
All your neighbors.
The ones you like and the ones you don’t.
The ones you agree with and the ones you are convinced are as wrong as they think you are.
The Boomers, the Millennials, the GenXers and the ones who fall into any of the other generational buckets it is increasingly fashionable to swing about as blunt instruments to beat each other up with.
Not a mere mortal among them.
Every last one of them as beloved by the God who created them as you are.
No exceptions.
No asterisk that reads *some restrictions apply.”
Imagine just for a minute what the world would be like if we declared independence from all the lies we’re told about each other and embraced this truth Jesus came to proclaim.
That’s it.
That’s the whole sermon.
The Reverend Canon Susan Russell, Canon for Engagement Across Difference
Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
#stillpreaches … h/t Kay Sylvester for reminder of this one from 2019
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One in the Spirit EDLA 