DISCORD AND PEACE
(Luke 12:49-56)
When is change welcome?
Division is its offspring,
discord its sibling.
Jesus brought discord,
breaking communal bonds formed
against those-not-us.
The peace Jesus gives*
we live – loving, embracing
‘those-not-us’ as us.
Jeff Shrowder, 2019
*John 14:27
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