Pulled forward by hope, often pushed from behind by desperation, no immigrant leaves his or her home country without powerful emotions in play. Their arrival evokes equally powerful emotions.
But since most of us have immigration stories somewhere back in our family tree, it behooves us to remember the old Celtic rune of hospitality that ends, “Often, often, often goes the Christ in the stranger’s guise.”
THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION
1. Evolution is a law of life not just of biology.
2. Only the mystery is permanent. All other apparent permanence is illusion.
Each one of us, O God, is burdened with the sheer weight of our private worlds: our health, that of a loved one, our jobs, our relationships.
read moreIdyllic beaches break the waves
as bathers line the shore
This view of peace is now disturbed:
an aftermath of war.
