This week: God as welcome. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]When a door is open, we can go out that door and engage the world or we can stay
inside and greet those who come in. That is our life when we follow God as welcome.
The door never shuts - never. It is like forgiveness - it is never-ending - it begins
again just when we thought 'enough with the forgiveness already.' God as welcome
puts into a place in which we are exposed to whatever may come. Yikes. We must
remember that this God as welcome is also the God when we were the 'whatever-may-come'
and we were greeted and embraced. God as welcome comes like water splashing in the
font - water thrown around a room of saints (sometime welcome - sometime not) -
water poured over us with words of promise that will be the way we are reminded
that in and through all times, we are welcome - no, we are now a part of the welcome
that will make the world new. God as welcome opens up a can of worms.
O God of love and new life, open up our hearts so we may be moved by your Spirit
and begin to find delight when the doors of our life are open to others. Amen.
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