Are you living connected, or only in close proximity? www.monahodgson.om

Are You Living Connected, or Only in Close Proximity?

We donate blankets to the homeless shelter and canned goods to the food bank. We pack Christmas boxes of hygiene and personal items for children around the world. We purchase goats or chickens for needy families in Uganda. All these good acts express love for my neighbors. Some of our neighbors. What about the woman seated alone on the far side of the sanctuary or even the woman who sits in front of me at the Sunday service? Week after week.

My Christmas Prayer www.monahodgson.com

My Christmas Prayer

Lord Jesus, with “O Come All Ye Faithful” playing in the background, I pause  to be still. Reset my spirit to remember that you are God. The Beginning and the End. The life-giving Light who came to earth all those years ago. Father, may the lavish love that compelled Christ to come as a babe swaddled in a feed trough, …