by Raven
My brother once told me a story that he said he heard on a Christian radio station. I may have parts of the story wrong because by this point it's third hand. Here's what my recollection of it is.
In the early days of telegraph, a magnate in the business was boasting to his pastor that in the future he would be able to broadcast his sermons coast to coast using the telegraph.
The pastor got very excited about the idea of being able to send his words across the country, but the businessman had to slow him down.
"We're not there yet," he said. "It would be way too expensive to broadcast one of your sermons nationwide at this point."
Then he saw how disappointed the minister was and he relented. Sort of. He told him that if he could boil one of his sermons down to one word he would telegraph it across the country. But his sermon had to be just one word.
The pastor thought and thought and finally came up with a one word sermon.
The word was "Others."
Why am I writing this on Commune Life? Because I think that if you are trying to start a community, the one word that you should have in mind is "Others."
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