Just returned from my first routine dog walk of the year, on a cold, wintry, pretty bleak day. January.
Yesterday my girls returned to university and the bleak mid winter truly seems upon us. Except I keep coming back to those wise men.
They found the stable and shared the joy, but one day, one bleak day they had to go back to their old lives, the celebration stopped and they went back to whatever it was they were doing before they set out and it wasn't the end of everything, in fact it was the beginning of a different life. The bible tells us they were advised to return a different route, and maybe that's what we need to do now, return to our old lives by a different route, for things have changed. We have been shown a new way, a way which transforms us to see the world differently, to be more aware of those around us, to be more purposeful in what we do , to take what we have found this season and tell others, to put colour back into this bleak midwinter moment.
And to do it all knowing that we are so very much loved, and that we need not be afraid.
"they departed for their own country another way." Matthew 2 vs 12
Yesterday my girls returned to university and the bleak mid winter truly seems upon us. Except I keep coming back to those wise men.
They found the stable and shared the joy, but one day, one bleak day they had to go back to their old lives, the celebration stopped and they went back to whatever it was they were doing before they set out and it wasn't the end of everything, in fact it was the beginning of a different life. The bible tells us they were advised to return a different route, and maybe that's what we need to do now, return to our old lives by a different route, for things have changed. We have been shown a new way, a way which transforms us to see the world differently, to be more aware of those around us, to be more purposeful in what we do , to take what we have found this season and tell others, to put colour back into this bleak midwinter moment.
And to do it all knowing that we are so very much loved, and that we need not be afraid.
"they departed for their own country another way." Matthew 2 vs 12
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