|
Dear friends,
We have a great deal happening at St. Andrew’s this Advent and Christmas season, and I hope you’ll take a moment to read about the events and opportunities ahead. Please join us as you’re able—we’d love to see you.
Our Rev. Sally recently shared this poetic meditation from Howard Thurman (1900–1981), an influential theologian, mystic, and civil-rights guide whose writings shaped generations of spiritual leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr. I offer it again here because it speaks so clearly to the deeper invitation of this season:
Christmas is waiting to be born
When refugees seek deliverance that never comes,
Where little children age before their time,
And life wears down the edges of the mind,
Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,
While bones and sinew, blood and cell,
go slowly down to death,
Where fear companions each day’s life,
And Perfect Love seems long delayed,
CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN,
In you, in me, in all humanity.
As we move toward the manger once again, I’m praying that we each find space in our hearts to welcome the birth of Jesus—God’s light, hope, and love made flesh.
Peace,
Paul
| 
