Today in the United States we inaugurate a new president.
While I pray President Trump leads with
wisdom, compassion, and justice,
we cannot simply sit back and watch whatever unfolds.
We the people have a tremendous responsibility to work together,
to speak truth to power,
to peacefully advocate for the rights of all beings and the earth.
This requires maturity and contemplative consciousness,
empathy for the “other,”
and courage to stand with those who are suffering.
It is not a popular or easy path.
But as human beings, we are called to be active participants
in our salvation and mutual survival.
I hope that by rediscovering the great gifts of Christianity
we might live as our whole selves,
becoming the united Body of Christ.
~R. Rohr
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