Our unhealthy economics and politics persist because
even Christians largely operate out of a worldview of scarcity: there is not
enough land, water, money, and housing for all of us; and in America there are
never enough guns to keep us safe. A saint always knows that there
is more than enough for our need but never enough for our greed. In the midst of the structural
stinginess and over-consumption of our present world, how do we possibly change
consciousness and teach the mind to operate from mercy and graciousness? It
will always be an uphill battle, and it will always depend upon a foundational
and sustained conversion. Even the churches tend to be stingy with grace and
mercy, as Pope Francis continues to point out.
Only our
personal experiences of unconditional, unearned, and infinite love and
forgiveness can move us from the normal worldview of scarcity to the divine
world of infinite abundance. That’s when the doors of mercy blow wide open!
That’s when we begin to understand the scale-breaking nature of the Gospel.
Catholics and much of the world are now stunned to observe a pope who
exemplifies this worldview in our time. We can no longer say it is impossible
idealism. – Fr. Richard Rohr
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