Homelessness at Christmas time - a reflection by Janice Clark Sheltering God, your protection for us is made known in images of rock and mountain, wings and arms, tent and fold. A protection that makes us feel safe, secure, and confident - with knowledge and assurance that removes our vulnerability, and our loneliness, our fears and our doubts. You have promised to be a constant presence, light, warmth and comfort, never failing, always near. And yet, within your world thousands of people lack shelter and cannot really call where they live a home. Their lives are impoverished, living in a space put together from whatever scraps they can gather. The rain leaks through, the heat of the sun is brutal, the dust irritates and water and airborne diseases flourish. Yet for many this is their home where new life is conceived, where love is shown, where characters are formed, where faith is passed on and where an understanding of your protection Is experienced. God, fully human, yet fully divine, you know what it is like to be have no real home - born into a stable, no vacancies in the places of hospitality, forced to flee as a refugee with life threatening attempts on your life. In the seasons of Advent and Christmas your frailty is remembered, your vulnerability acknowledged, your purpose for the world revered. Come again, to give protection and shelter. Come again to strengthen the weak and to subdue the proud. Come to our own vulnerability and enable all to offer hope to a world in need.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:00:00 +0000
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