I'm pondering the common good this morning, and I'm thinking in our walking-around world that the common good is us. Period.
Why am I reminded of Pogo? Oh yeah, We have met the enemy and he is us. Well, if that be true, if we be the enemy and we be the common good, then dig deeper: There...the need for spiritual help aborning.
The common good does not need us to fancy it up, study spiritual tracts, quote Saint Benefactor or some such. We are the common good just as we are.
Our need is simple really: To accept that we are the common good our own self and that our acceptance cannot be done without our inner realization of that reality for him, her and them, too.
The common good is simply meeting the need for spiritual help. Not in religious form, not self-ideated, but with an honest, open and willing heart, and mainly for the benefit of others.
This is a call to love our neighbor [and our enemy] and is the foundation for reestablishing and reclaiming the common good...[to have a] willingness to risk for the common good. -- Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," November 6. 2012.
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