They-Us-You-Me-We

“There is no they,” insists Jeff Hoffman.

He goes on —

“They don’t help kids.

They don’t fight injustice or racism.

They don’t feed hungry people

or help stop human trafficking.

YOU do. WE do.”

—- In what some call The Real Lord’s Prayer in John 17 (not to be confused with The Disciples’ Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11), Christ Jesus said,

Holy Father, guard them as they pursue this life
That you conferred as a gift through me,
So they can be one heart and mind
As we are one heart and mind.

— We are they.

We are us.

We are Christ’s.

Are we living towards the one-ness for which he prayed or not?

What’s one thing you and I can do today to take one step in that direction?