The rich young man asks Jesus, How do I inherit eternal life? This is
not a question about heaven. We all want
to get into heaven, but Jesus wants heaven to get into us. It’s not about bank accounts or a tally sheet
of good deeds. It’s about the eternal
life in connecting. Jesus shows us that
before things become mutually beneficial at the margins, they need to be
mutually relational. Only connect. Again, our separation is an illusion. God invites us to always live on the edge of
eternity, at the corner of kinship and mutuality. We only seek to create a connection of
hearts, to show others that they are seen, acknowledged, and embraced in the
mutuality of value.
--Fr. Greg Boyle,
Barking to the Choir:
The Power of Radical
Kinship
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