SOCL, Easter7C
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- May 31
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Updated: Jun 10
Sunday June 01, 2025
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We champion independence, yet crave belonging. Modern life promises freedom through separation—curated social feeds, gated communities, personalized everything. But isolation masquerates as choice. We mistake proximity for connection, confusing networks with relationships.
True unity demands vulnerability. It requires dismantling the walls we've built to protect our carefully constructed identities. Like fingers learning they belong to the same hand, genuine connection happens when we stop competing for individual recognition and start moving together toward shared purpose.
The deepest human longing isn't to be understood—it's to understand that we're already part of something larger. Unity isn't uniformity; it's the recognition that our differences serve a common wholeness, like instruments in an orchestra discovering they've been playing the same song all along.
Listen
Reflect
(John 17:20-26)
Consider the relationships where you feel most isolated or misunderstood. What walls have you built to protect yourself, and how might these barriers also prevent genuine connection with others around you?
Jesus prayed for unity that reflects divine love—not agreement, but deep communion. How might viewing disagreements as opportunities for deeper understanding transform your approach to conflict and difference in relationships?
Where in your daily interactions can you choose vulnerability over self-protection? How might opening yourself to others' experiences create the kind of transformative connection that changes communities?
Pray
Loving God, whose unity encompasses all diversity, break down the walls we build between ourselves and others. Help us see beyond our differences to recognize our shared humanity. Transform our communities from collections of individuals into living expressions of your love, where justice flows and mercy prevails for all.
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