Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin
Creation always includes separation. You can’t create unless you separate. Creating a sculpture, for example, requires you to decide how much clay you lump in. The rest you leave out. Or, when you create a painting, it’s up to you how much red paint you put on which side of the canvas, but you don’t put all the paint everywhere. To create a dish in the kitchen, you must separate your ingredients.
When the entire world itself was created, chapter one of Genesis tells us, separation took place. The light was separated from the darkness. The waters were separated. Day and night were separated. We know, also, that at the end of time, in the great apocalypse, there will be a separation as well: the sheep will be separated from the goats. That is to say, the just people will be separated from the unjust.
Any enterprise undertaken in this world will require separation. A decision must be made to do this and not to do that. You must let go of some things in order to hold on to others. Whenever the process of separation becomes difficult, whenever it starts to cost you, remember that in Christ alone “all things hold together” (Col 1:17) and through him all things are reconciled.