Fellowship

The culture wars in this country reveal a lot of division.  Election politics will play on this.  There will be talk of the need to come together.  The one place that consistently seems to "come together" and overcome differences is in Recovery meetings.  It shows that we might need a certain desperation to overcome differences.  Sexual preferences, skin color, ethnicity, economic status, and even hygiene  differences are overcome, and accepted, because there is a common experience, addiction, and a common goal, sobriety.  Isolation in these meetings gets you nowhere but back into the misery you say you want to escape.  On the other hand, many people try to negotiate life by keeping a distance from those they see as different, and less than.  The rich live away from the poor.  The black and white live in their separate ghettos, the Latinos hang together.  Some people will even avoid public transportation because it is the one place they might have to mix with "inferiors."  I believe that differences in appearance serve to reveal the many ways in which God chooses to appear in my life each day.  I like public transportation.  I don't even wear headphones.  I could be your worst nightmare, a guy who strikes up a conversation with you while you are trying to isolate.