They care about each other.
And, they worry when one of them is missing.
Social media, especially the telephone, is engaged by this closeknit group.
And, when they observe and feel that their sense of community is threatened unfairly, they speak up.
Fractured parishes, among other organizations and communities, seem to mount these days.
Resolving conflicts in these same communities entails patience, among the other virtues of faith, hope and charity.
Yet, a two-way street, so to speak, needs to ensue if satisfactions is the aim.
Customer care is like that.
Service requires stooping low t lift up life, and live out of the Gospel "good news."
Otherwise, people may grow a "hardness of heart" about leaders who may refuse to talk through issues.
Family is like that also.
Differences demand communications.
Atrophy of hard feelings follow if parishioners, for example, or, a board of directors of a condominium association, to illustrate another, fail to live by the rules and regulations, let alone the Good Book.
Holding up and "circling the wagons" about the fort, to cite another metaphor, only makes people bristle and defend their positions.
Bringing the Creator into the "mix" and the mixed up parties involved is a sure way of resolving conflicts in church and society.
Without honoring this process of dialog, people resort to other means.
Some choose to walk away from their community. Others stop giving tithes, or making offerings to support the system's charities, and, staff personnel, and other ordained leaders.
When God is not in the recipe for healing hurts of the people of God, rage and revolt ensue, sad to
say.
And, more bitter feelings follow.
The Good News is that because Jesus the Christ offers solutions to problems yet to be tried in some cases.
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