That might just be God tapping you on the shoulder.
Do the refugees make you uncomfortable? Do they shake you from your feeling a safety and make you rethink life? Perhaps they make you hug your children tighter at night.
Today my husband and I discussed the possibility of WWIII calmly trying to assess whether that is a reasonable concern.
Friends, my faith does not solve these problems, but it assures me that the risks are worth taking.
Another name for the Holy Spirit is “the one who stirs up.” The Holy Spirit both stirs us up and comforts us at the same time (I don’t know how, but its true).
Christianity isn’t supposed to be sitting on our laurels of blessings, feeling at one with the world.
It is a call to action to serve and love one another, to be open to other human being
And lets be honest, that’s dangerous. Its dangerous to open yourself to being in relationship with others. But that is our call as Christian.
We are called to preach and embody Christ and the Good News Even at the risk of our own lives. Does that include refugees who might be terrorists?
As a Christian you are called to be in some kind of relationship with every other human being on the earth.
Because they too are creations of God.
Do the refugees make you uncomfortable?
That might just be God tapping you on the shoulder.
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Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. Prior to that she studied both Theology and Christian Formation at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also served as an Assistant Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and as the Christian Educational Coordinator at Bethany Presbyterian at Bloomfield, NJ.
She is an writer and is published in Enfleshed, Sermonsuite, Presbyterian's today and Outlook. She writes prayers, liturgy, poems and public theology and is pursuing her doctorate in ministry in Creative Write and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
She enjoys working within and connecting to the community, is known to laugh a lot during service, and tells as many stories as possible. Pastor Katy loves reading Science Fiction and Fantasy, theater, arts and crafts, music, playing with children and sunshine, and continues to try to be as (w)holistically Christian as possible.
"Publisher after publisher turned down A Wrinkle in Time," L'Engle wrote, "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was too difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adult's book, anyhow?" The next year it won the prestigious John Newbery Medal.
Tolkien states in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings that he disliked allegories and that the story was not one.[66] Instead he preferred what he termed "applicability", the freedom of the reader to interpret the work in the light of his or her own life and times.
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Re not knowing how to be comforting and shake things up at the same time: Mary Poppins, Albus Dumbledore, Cimorene, Kel.
Love it! Aslan too!