24. From Division to Unity

I am not convinced that unity is a matter of setting our differences aside. I think unity is a matter of bringing the raw ingredients of our differences to the kitchen table. And at that kitchen table, we will look at all of our ingredients, and we will ask each other this question: What ingredients do we need to keep so that everyone can eat?

One thing we have in common is that we all need to eat. We all need nourishment, so that we can continue to be. And that nourishment comes through unity, realizing that we are joined together, hungry souls seeking to be whole on a journey. Storytellers. At a distance, it may seem that our differences will keep you from knowing me and me from knowing you. But around the kitchen table, the message of our collective need gets through: we need to eat.  And in order to eat, we need each other: the spices and the sauces and the songs of our grandmothers and the things that we are not quite sure we're allowed to say out loud.

Let us come around, let the water boil on the stove. Let us throw in and stir and never stop until everyone is fed. This is unity. This is harvest.

And in the word of the great poet Gwendolyn Brooks,

We are each other's harvest. We are each other's business, we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Unity is not setting our differences aside. Unity is bringing the raw ingredients of our differences right to the kitchen table, turning on the stove, and not leaving until everyone is fed. So may you carry on today with the awareness of the space that we desperately need to gather and eat.

Thank you for listening. And before we go, I would like to leave you with a question. You are free to take this question and write about it in your journal or just simply think about it throughout the day.

Journal: How can you cultivate unity today, even from a distance?

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