Greetings Dear Reader,
Since we have covered that the journey requires that we keep
moving we must ponder that we live in a world filled with wanderers. We must further consider that many of them
may be very weary.
My faith has its roots in a culture that had very clear
understandings around the idea of hospitality and how to treat strangers. One did not turn away the person with no
place to stay. One did not neglect the
needs of the foreigner in the land.
We are told to be careful how we treat strangers. We are told that the needs of others matter
always to us. The weary traveler had
needs. The weary traveler deserves
kindness and companionship. The wanderer
may only fall in step with us for a bit but we are obligated to be good company
to him or her whilst we are in step.
We entangle the simple requirement to be kind to strangers
in what if and where to fore until the needs of the human are lost in the
fabricated rules and roles. We hide
behind programs and processes that leave starving beggars in the cold. We deny children their needs in the name of
what might happen.
I am obligated to love and show kindness to whomever I
encounter on the journey. I am required
to be present with them in the moment. I
must do these things if I think I have any hope of loving my neighbor.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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