Sermon for Sunday May 29th, 2011
I have told you before about the visions I had as a young person about seeing how the human race was interconnected. I would often close my eyes, shortly before I fell asleep and witness a sea of white strands of some kind of web, connected in every possible way to one another. It was all of humanity, faces and names I knew and recognized, as well as faces and names I never knew and did not recognize. It was a comforting vision, it was a good vision, and it helped me understand the African concept of Ubuntu, which we in the Episcopal Church have been using lately in our mission and ministry. Ubuntu is the idea that , "I am what I am because of who we all are." Desmond Tutu defines Ubuntu as this, “A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others ar