Daily Meditation: Sunday, March 30, 2014

Unity - preserving it by knowing how to harmonize the differences between people

03/30/2014

If some people do not want to make the effort to be in harmony with others, it is because they fear being absorbed by the community. No, every person is a separate individual, but while still maintaining their own character, their particular way of being, they must work for unity. Look at the cells of the body: they are not identical, and they do not fulfil the same functions. A cell of the heart is not a cell of the stomach; each retains its individual nature. But the similarities and connections between them create a state of harmony we call health. Is that so difficult to understand? We do not have to ask a black person to become white, a Muslim or a Buddhist to become a Christian. In the past, Christianity sent missionaries to convert people all over the world, and with what violent and tragic consequences! All believers, like all human beings, must keep their particular characteristics, their differences, but at the same time establish fraternal links, through which they create unity.