Article June 18, 1990 Issue

A HEART FOR COMMUNITY

It's natural to care deeply about community. Real love for family extends to neighbors—and overflows for the whole of society. This occasional column tells of how a spiritual perspective has been helping Sentinel readers help others and make a contribution to healing some of the collective challenges facing communities today.

For almost twenty years I was administrator of a school where many of the children's parents were professionals and were deeply interested in and involved with their children's education. Then I felt impelled to resign from that position. I became director of a different school and day-care center where most of the children came from substandard homes. Some of the parents were fourteen-and fifteen-year-old unwed mothers, alcoholics, drug and child abusers.

One afternoon I sat in my office thinking about my former school, those students, and that environment. But I stopped short. Did God know the difference between children of lawyers, alcoholics, doctors, or drug abusers? No! In terms of the children's actual, spiritual identity, God was each child's real Parent—their Father-Mother. And there is really only one family, the family of man as God created us.

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