We all need people

We all need people in our lives, but what do we do? 

We keep busy; we avoid; we act to control and use others; we be arrogant; we are afraid of revealing too much.  Basically, too often, we do anything but connect.  So we act against dialogue and encounter, as Pope Francis describes the way to achieve human connection.  People yearn for community but our world fails too often.  We just seem unable to act for our own good.  

Rather we stick to power games, staying on top, keeping the other in the dark and at an arm's distance.  So our crazy world just goes on and on, even if we don't want it to continue as such.  And so, we ever engage in conflict, division and abuse of the goodness of others.  How tiring!  Pride, greed and control remain as killers of good life and relationships.  How destructive!  

We may full well know that the ways of peace and love are the way to human fulfilment.  Why don't we engage more then in meeting and experiencing each other?  Care and concern for our brothers, sisters and planet; using power to create and build up will achieve much more than focusing on the Ukraine situations of our world, of our coomuniites and our relationships. 

The way to go is summed up in the words of St Irenaeus (2nd Century, Lyon);  

The glory of  God is man and woman fully alive. The glory of God gives life: those who see God receive life."