2019 … A few more Brothers from mothers Other
After it had become clear that hitchhiking on a cargo ship was not going to be feasible or fluid, I returned to Santiago, where a previous offer of transportation to Madrid (and thereafter by plane to the States) was waiting for me. And upon arriving once more in that glorious city, I immediately r33ceived confirmation of sorts that this decision was indeed a Right One – confirmation in the form of two Soul-Brothers well met in town (fellow Way-Walker Dan the Man & activist Franciscan friar Brother Alasdair); two long-lost Friends who I never would have been blessed to meet at all had I held inflexibly firm to my original plans …
“According to the wisdom of Christ, we aren’t to first find our Soul’s greater gifts through self-examination and introspection and then find ways to express them. Instead, we are called to set firth and love one another, serve one another, help one another, and in so doing rediscover how God has equipped us to do so … And to this particular end we must all be knit together as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. we must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities for the supply of others’ necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor, and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body – the one & same family of sentient brothers & sisters & cousins. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, and so shall we become active agents of The Divine, and thereby allow the same to dwell among us.” ~ inspired by Russell Moore & John Winthrop
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