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I have spent the last week in Maryland, “habitating” on Mason Dixon Road.
If you’re unacquainted with the significance of “Mason Dixon,” simply explained, it is the contrived boundary line which was drawn to distinguish the North from the South, and therefore, the free states from the slave states. It was another one of those man-made solutions that seemed brilliant at the time because it appeased an acceptable insanity.
As I thought about it this week, I realized that every time we try to divide one from another–be it by race, gender, culture, sexual preference, or denomination–we take a big slather of glue and try to repair a major crack in the rock.
It never works. It never holds. And eventually, the action of trying to achieve a temporary solution seems ludicrous.
If we would simply start with the principle that there are no divisions unless we’re trying to be superior, then we would be on our way to understanding human life as it was meant to be on Planet Earth.
Enjoying the fine souls at Walkersville United Methodist Church, I realized that there was no greater message to share with them than the removal of all the “Mason Dixon Lines” that keep us apart.
I don’t care if it’s some politician portraying that the one percent is battling the ninety-nine percent, or another chap who insists on constructing a wall to keep the immigrants from the “permanents”–we are merely pretending to address a situation which can only be achieved by submitting to the wisdom of four immutable axioms.
Whenever there are two people gathered, each must realize:
1. We’re both wrong.
If life were as limited as our understanding, then it could never include everyone alive. So in some way, we’re both wrong.
2. We’re both right.
Yes, there is something good at the core of almost every philosophy or religion which can be included in the ultimate solution.
3. The Spirit knows the difference.
As long as we are in our flesh or living in our minds, we will never be able to surrender to the ultimate wisdom that keeps us from constructing barriers between one another.
- We need the spirit of history
- We need the spirit of science
- We need the spirit of wisdom
- We need the spirit of creativity.
And this is all encapsulated in our Father in Heaven.
4. Stay in the Spirit.
Since it is the Spirit that will lead us to deeper acceptance, the more we laugh at our prejudices as we chase them out the door, the greater the chance that we will achieve comprehension.
So that’s the good news. Because we’re both wrong and we’re both right, and the Spirit knows the difference, we should stay in the Spirit.
And here’s the better news:
It’s fun being wrong, as long as you believe in your heart that it is possible.
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