What lesson can be learned about the recent, recorded exchange of information among some local clergymen in a casual setting?
Perhaps, it would be a lesson for some on self-righteousness or a lesson on the use of secular power. Maybe it is simply a lesson in espionage.
In my opinion, it could be a lesson in all three, despite the fact that this meeting was all about politics and less to do with religion. And resembling less of a democracy and more of a totalitarian approach to dissention. More to do with one man's reaction out of fear than acts of positive citizenship.
Less about trust and more about deception. More about betrayal and less about confidentiality. Less about humanity and more about winning the battle. More about division and less about unity. Less about resolution and more about persecution.
Speaking of persecution, what would Jesus have done had he been seated at this table, in his own flesh and blood? I imagine that he would have reminded everyone to "love thy neighbor as yourselves" and looked directly at that disciple who's agenda was apparent to him and remind him of the teaching of our father, in that "everyone who exalts himself will be humbled."
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I am glad that the minister who taped Senator Johnson has come forward, so he can take credit for these lessons -- which, in my opinion, were so irreverently delivered to all of us -- and be forgiven.
Karen Carlson-Thibault
Willmar
