:: "...it amounts to nothing..." ::

I have been challenged lately to let these words roll through my whole thinking:

"... but if you don't have love, it amounts to nothing..."

Whatever changes we want to see happen, we do have to come to grip with the "liberation theology" that certainly seizes us with a zeal that drives our soapboxing. But how narrow is the narrow road? Yes, we need to walk through a season of expression of our hurts, finding our voice again. And of healing, finding our center again. But beyond that, we do have to REconnect with the simple commandement: love. And WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR should be our question, and we should have the courage of our convictions and answer truthfully.

The process of finding out what's wrong with the system should lead to asking ourselves "what's wrong with me that I let myself be driven by a system and not the Spirit?" Because when we find that out, there is less chances we would let the Conversation lead us to another life driven by a system we're again unable to fully define. When in fact, it's a convenience to allow our human weaknesses to appear as simple and obedient conformity, meanwhile leaving us to our own devices as soon as we walk out of the circle of that system.

"According to its own seed" is a principle that is spiritually universal. Although we need all the forces and influences represented in a community, even at their infantile stage, ideally (dare I...?) we need the cohesion only the Holy Spirit can bring, and it's not a matter of the mind, but a matter of the heart. Beyond our questions and Conversation, we still belong to families and communities where the life of love should remain dynamic and fruitful.

And I have read here that many support this vision as a missional local way of life. And that, for me, is where we need to truly focus in the end: the tension between the acts of charity and what they speak to us about ourselves, the need for acts of charity and what they reveal about our communities' heart structures.