Finding Home for Christmas: The Route Home

We start a new year much like we started the last one, wondering about the impact of COVID-19, the economy, our polarized politics, and the Cowboys’ playoff chances. We start this year, as we do every year, observing Epiphany, when we remember the Magi meeting the infant Jesus. Epiphany also means “a sudden realization, to see something in a new or clear way.” It is fitting we should start the year that way, reading of how they leave their home on a journey, encounter what God is doing in the world, then return home “by another road,” in the words of T. S. Eliot, to arrive where they started and know the place for the first time. What have we brought from 2021 that will cause us to know our piece of the world—and ourselves—for the first time? What journeys can we start in 2022 that will allow us to know our world for the first time? Wishing you a Happy New Year and looking forward to all God has in store for this community in 2022!