James Manson reports on Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, “When we begin to understand God as a being who participates in all things, a God who is an infinite outflow of love, a God who is the life force of everything, we realize that we are not autonomous in anything we do.”  Nothing so high and fancy as beginning to understand God is required to realize that we are not autonomous in anything we do.  Disappointment in the electorate elevating the rhetoric of The Donald offers realization enough.  The Faithful need not succor God in the need for helpful policies, without looking to themselves to find what God is telling them.

Rohr looks to Genesis, where the Liturgy of the Word, Reading 497, Monday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time II, today, looks to Revelation 2:17, “Those who are victorious I will feed from the tree of life.”  Victory is something some people have and others do not.  Not all people are the same, because not all people live the same way, in the Way.