13th Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 18:21-35

We share this world
this life
with the many who are the
Children of God
We live
and sin
           and hate
                   and love
as do our brothers and sisters.
In forgiveness
Christ makes us one,
In envy
           we try to become two.
forgive one another
live not as the master
or the gatekeeper
lest you find yourself one day
facing the gate from the other side,
forced by your own insistence
on the upholding of the law
rather
than forgiveness.
it is in forgiveness
that our divisions are united
and our souls healed once again
to see the glory of God
shinning into our lives
and in the lives of those we formally knew
only as then,
in love


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