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It's odd, isn't it.... the verses of Scripture that can pop into your head sometimes.

With the goings on between the loosely knit members of the Anglican purple cloth in the news this week.... well, this one popped right up.

If we love one another, don't we try and try again? If we love one another, isn't there enough room at the table of discussion for everyone?

Historically, everyone knows on some level that prophets are needed - those who see beyond the circumstances of here and now into a greater truth... and historically everyone knows that few - if any - prophets were given the royal treatment, let alone a welcome mat.

We need God, but find it easy to turn away. We need truth, but don't want to hear it plainly. We need unconditional love, yet somehow it necessary to annex some conditions, some strings to it.

Here we are in a system threatening to set member against member... over the very issue of membership..... who belongs in the club.

I'm a simple woman, blue collar roots. And I have been taught that baptism - even in our infancy - brings us into the "club" with Jesus. What will we do next.... hold debates or private review board each instance when a baby, a child, an adolescent, an adult is presented for baptism to determine whether that individual is worthy to belong to the "club"?

We may well be at a crossroads..... I believe Jesus died once, for us all: sinners all, human all. Do we have the right to determine another's worth IN THE EYES OF GOD???

I am praying daily the prayer there that be enough room at the table for us all, as there is enough love in the being of God for us all....... and that it may be truly said again "See how these Christians love one another". Amen and Amen.
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