How about we
stop trying to
be the greatest.
How about we
not look out for number one.
How about we
stop building walls
around the fiction of our security.
How about we
stop making rivals out of
people who
look, think, act, believe
differently
than us.
How about we
stop comparing our stuff
with that of our neighbors.
(None of which, by the way, is ours to keep,
and all of which has no value at all
if it is not used to build a better world.)
How about we
recognize that we can’t survive
without each other.
Like the parts of a body.
Like the body of Christ.
—Susan Francesconi
“If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; If one part is honored, all the parts share its joy.”
—1 Cor 12:12-29
The Good Disciple 