Seek first the kinship of God (Fr. Greg Boyle)

  It is true enough that we could make the world more just, equal, and peaceful, but something holds us back, in all our complicated fear and human hesitation.  It’s sometimes just plain hard to locate the will to be in kinship even though, at the same time, it’s our deepest longing.  So no matter how singularly focused we may be on our worthy goals of peace, justice, and equality, they actually can’t happen without an undergirding sense that we belong to each other.  Seek first the kinship of God, then watch what happens.

--Fr. Greg Boyle, Barking to the Choir

Image source:  Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (1826), 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hicks#/media/File:Edward_Hicks_-_Peaceable_Kingdom.jpg