Oct/Nov 2005 Reflection

                            Message from 
         Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu
            From his book,  God Has a Dream

God has a dream and God will make his dream come true through us.  For we are His partners.  We are the ones He has sent to free the oppressed, to feed the hungry, and to shelter the homeless.  We will turn our sadness into resolve, our despair into determination.

If you were in heaven now you would notice the tears in God's eyes.  The tears streaming down God's face as God looked on us and saw the awful things that we, God's children, are doing to each other.  God cries and cries.  And then you might see the smile breaking over god's face like sunshine through the rain, almost like a rainbow.

You would see God smiling because God was looking on you and noting how deeply concerned you are.  And the smile might break out into a laugh as God,  said , "You have vindicated Me.  I had been asking Myself, 'Whatever got into Me to create that lot?' And when I see you , yes YOU," God says, " you are beginning to wipe the tears from my eyes because you care.  Because you care and you have come to learn that you are not your brother's or sister's keeper.  You are your brother's brother and your sister's sister."  And God says, "I have no one except you.  Thank-you for vindicating Me." 

All over this magnificent world God calls is to extend His kingdom for shalom-peace and wholeness-of justice, of goodness, of compassion, of caring, of sharing, of laughter, of joy, of reconciliation and of forgiveness, God is transfiguring the world right this very moment through us because God believes in us and because God loves us.

What can separate us from the love of God? Nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  And as we share God's love with our brothers and sisters, God's other children, there is no tyrant who can resist us, no oppression that cannot  be ended, no hunger that cannot be fed, no wound that cannot be healed, no hatred that cannot be turned into love, nothing that cannot be forgiven, and no dream that cannot be fulfilled.