Thy Kingdom Come....undone???

Today in chapel I was granted a rare glimpse of the Kingdom of Heaven. We have a group of students that comes to Wilmore for 6 weeks for several years and they get a degree. The rest of the year they return to their homes across the world. Well several of them are about to graduate and go home so we began to pray for them and lay hands on them. They stood in the middle of the chapel and we filled in the asiles around them. Then when we were done we all just stayed there to sing the closing hymn. The Singing Sems had sung earlier so about 40 of us were in blue robes (including me). Behind me was a woman from China, on my right was a man from Brazil, on my right was an Asian (i think he's Korean but not sure) and next to him was a man from Malaysia and in front of me were a bunch of Americans. It reminded me so much of the passage we read in Revelation this morning of the great throng of people from every tribe and tongue and nation all robed in white worshiping God together. It truly was a kingdom moment.

and then...
We have an online discussion that is leaning toward being hostile (and definitely borders on unChristian) about what does it mean to be an American, who should be an American, what we should do with "illegal immigrants" etc. It's beginning to rip apart our community. Which is terrible because we have such an amazing international presence on campus. Instead of reaching out in love to our brothers and sisters in other countries, and loving the aliens (legal or not) in our midst, we are building walls against them and against each other and I wonder....where is the love of Christ for these lost people, for those society has cast aside? I wonder how we can all pray "God's kingdom come" as we help it to come undone??