AdventWord 2018, Day 20 – “sign”
Posting a sign means that you are serious about the topic. You’ve talked with people, maybe posted a less formal notice. But when you purchase a sign and make it part of your world, you’re screaming your intentions at people.
This is especially true of the sign that was posted outside my church that said “Hate Has No Home Here” in 6 languages.
My spiritual home is a place where people follow the teachings of Jesus. We celebrate his birth in human form soon. And we tell everyone how we do that in loud voices outside our spiritual home. We proclaim that hate is never okay and not something that we allow. We also say that are welcome at the Lord’s table for communion, which is a big reason why I sought out The Episcopal Church after spending most of my life in a less tolerant faith that did not allow non-members to share in the body and blood of the Lord.
Your experiences are different. Thanks for reading mine, which are well captured by the declaration that hate has not home in my church home and in my world.
Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart [and especially the hearts of the people of this land], that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed, we may live in justice and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.