Connection with God and others is a feast of love. It’s a joy we were made for and one that is always available to us, but it takes an act of opening our hearts. It means recognizing that the party God is throwing is not just for people like me or people who believe like me. It’s for everybody. As Richard Rohr has said, “The only thing Jesus excluded was exclusion itself.” It is a great tragedy that Christians took that message of scandalous inclusion and mutated it into a story about needing to convert people.
