11.28.23 - Ezekiel 34: 16
What if I responded to desperate situations like healing was possible?
“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, …”
I had children young; my children are teens when most of my friends are currently having babies, if they are having children at all.
There is something wide-eyed and especially hopeful about the expecting and early stages of parenting. One believes that every parenting decision is creating a new kind of child who will change the world.
I am a jaded and worn parent, struggling with how violence, depression, fear, and harm crept into my children’s lives anyway.
It feels significant to me this season that Christ comes as a baby, not an adult.
This week, I am embracing the sweet ethos of expecting an infant, when life is full of fresh possibility.
What if I responded to desperate situations like healing was possible?
What if I believed my actions would matter and could end violence and genocide?
How would I bind up the injured and strengthen the weak?
-- Theo Isoz