My church’s focus this year is on becoming “one.”  We’re not supposed to just be people that see each other at church on Sundays.  The goal is to create an environment of unity.  To function on one accord.  In the past when I thought of unity, it generally involved the institution of marriage.  It evoked images of two single tapered lit candles coming together to light the flame of a fat candle.  Then the flames of the single candles were extinguished.  Because the two had become one. Such a simple and beautiful image.  And so difficult to orchestrate in our everyday lives.  Unity has the power to change the world. …