Saturday, December 23, 2006

December 23rd - Travel Day

I traveled most of the day today. As we get closer to Christmas, one of the ways we prepare is by going home. Like Joseph on his way to Bethlehem, our paths take us this time of year. Of course, a plane ride is no mountainous hike, but travel opens us up to the Christ-child, too. It puts us with people we wouldn't ordinarily run into (some more loudly talkative than others), and brings us for a while to a different world - a place where we wouldn't ordinarily go, but that may give us a new window into the world as it really is.

Some of us won't be physically traveling this holiday, but I hope you will take a journey in your heart - the journey toward Bethlehem, and to the baby - vulnerable and human, and thereby miraculous: a sign of God's peaceful arrival on earth.

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