Unity – November 10, 2002
In a small New England town, on many a Sunday you can walk the narrow streets nearly alone. Sundays are quiet there. There are no shopping malls, no seven-day-a-week supermarkets. At the only main intersection, a church on each corner looks over the town like four sentries encamped among the sugar maples and row houses. Find the right time of day on the Sabbath, at the right place on the sidewalk, and you can hear voices from each congregation drifting from open windows—simultaneous verses of “Master, the Tempest Is Raging” and “Abide with Me; ’Tis Eventide” will often converge.
To each voice in each choir, only the harmony within the walls of their own church may be heard. But outside the walls, outside the habits and human routines, another harmony swells.
As we go through the movements of our lives, are we straining so hard to sing our own songs that we miss the chorus of others? There is a great harmony to the human race—a harmony of brotherhood, of commonality. We share the same rhythms of joy and pain, trial and triumph. Should we not celebrate simply being human together?
Let your song touch the hearts of others. Reach out and understand someone who may be looking at the world from a different corner.
Let us livein peace with all our neighbors, that we may give our communities the kind of rich harmony that comes from every person singing their part—that we may all “make a joyful noise”1 unto God.
Program #3821
1. Psalm 66:1.