Imagine

I once saw an old man holding a raggedy piece of cardboard with the words scribbled on it, “we must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.” This old man didn’t have it all together, he was certainly not wealthily to any of our standards; he had no home, no money, and no family. I don’t even really now if he was truly all there. But regardless of his outside circumstances there is certainly a truth that lay within him. He understands that without each other we are nothing. If we were all alone in this world, with no one to talk to, no one to live with, no one to share the awestruck beauty of a sunset, or the dawn of a new day, what would be the point? What would be the purpose of life? Isn’t it to be apart of the lives of others, to love as Christ has loved us, isn’t that what truly gives our lives meaning? A little time ago I came across these lyrics in a song and they have always stuck with me.

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world...

What if we lived life like this? What if we decided that the material things in this world didn’t really matter to us any more? That they were nice to have, nothing wrong with them, but that they no longer possessed us but that we possessed them. What if when we saw the hurting around us we didn’t just throw them a bone, but threw them a hand, that we took them in, that we became like the Good Samaritan. Can you imagine if we began to see the world, to see people not as separate entities but as a whole community? That we were one big brotherhood, that was joined together not because of tragedy, not because of pain, but were joined together because of Christ love.