We recently vacationed in Québec City. Our tour guide on a walking tour explained the history of the city from the coming of the first French explorers to politics in the 1960s and again in the 1980s. You may recall that the country held two referendums in Quebec to find the sentiment of the people toward staying in Canada.
The first vote was not close, but a second vote a decade later tallied almost a 50/50 split. This told the rest of Canada that something must be done.
Politicians worked out a compromise making Quebec sort of a “nation within a nation.” It does not have embassies or passports, but it does have some special prerogatives within the nation.
The guide had two phrases. The first was, “it means nothing.” The notion of the “nation within a nation” isn’t exactly true. But his second phrase is something that could be used within American (and many other countries) politics, as well as within the general Christian movement in the world—We make it work.
In so many areas of life stubbornness, tempers, lack of empathy, closed minds get in the way of working things out.
We should also be able to say, “We make it work.”
Faith Venture 
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