Micah 5:2-5a
As the Nation, and the World, begins to recover from the shock of the shootings in Newtown, CT the conversation about how to best prevent these things from happening again is beginning. We are sure to see the deep-ceded divisions revolved around the right to have a gun or not. The people who are defending our rights to carry a gun will be screaming about how the other side is trying to take away that right. While that's going on the people trying to limit the damage that can be done with the guns people own will be screaming about our right to live in a place that allows for a sensible feeling, and knowledge, of peace.
In the past these conversations revolved around our basic rights as human beings living in a free-world. That is true until now. This time there will be no escaping the fact that the types of guns and ammunition abilities used in this particular shooting found a way to harm the most innocent and loving of all humanity; children. Regardless of where those who will be filling our airwaves stand in the conversations revolving around our right to defend ourselves, and regardless of where you stand in that conversation, let us not forget that unless we stand together in love that conversation will get nowhere.
This week in Advent we are going to do our best to seek the love brought to us by God through Christ. In light of the recent events this may prove to be a more difficult task than we hope for, but together let's take this journey and try to find where that love resides.
In our passage today, Micah prophesies about the one who is coming that will bring peace to our world. In the hearts of Christians we believe this one to be Christ. What Christ brought with him was the understanding, and the teachings toward the understanding, that the way to peace is through love, and that love is the unconditional acceptance of all people.
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