Community Quote

Quote from the Celtic Daily Prayer Finan Readings for March 11 - "The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God, by others and by himself. He enters the community of Christians with his demands, his own law, and judges the brethren and himself accordingly. He acts as if he is the creator of community, as if it is his dream which holds the community together. When things do not go his way, he calls the effort a failure. When his ideal picture is destroyed, he sees the community going to smash. So, he becomes first an accuser of his brethren, then God, and finally the despairing accuser of himself." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Maybe James T. was right. May it never be so with us.