It can take you by surprise ... Be where you’d least expect to find it ... Transcend logic or circumstances ... Inexplicably appear with the simplest offerings of care. The joy of simple acceptance and trust and community. At the end of a journey that began in fear, life can feel overwhelming and lonely ... What small gift can we offer to ease the loneliness?
Matthew 2:13-15
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
Welcoming Strangers - December 12/13
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December 13, 2020 • James Paton
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