The Glorious Table: You Have the Power

You Have the Power

“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.” 

~Eleanor Roosevelt

 We are a country and a world with immense power for good. However, when a few bad things happen, the good doesn’t feel nearly good enough.

That’s where I sit right now. You are likely sitting there, too.

We watch videos of people being killed. We know that racism exists. We see protestors striking back. We are outraged. But we feel helpless.

We feel helpless not just about what’s happening in our country, but about what’s happening in the broader world, too. Wars. Famines. Human trafficking. There is so much bad.

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