- Isaiah 7:10-14- Matthew 1:18-25To love someone is not first of all to do things for them, but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: ‘You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.’"- Jean Vanier“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves To love is to embrace.To love is to include.To love is to empower.To love is to suffer with.To love is to become vulnerable.To love is to share.To love is to be defenseless.

- Isaiah 7:10-14- Matthew 1:18-25To love someone is not first of all to do things for them, but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: ‘You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.’"- Jean Vanier“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves To love is to embrace.To love is to include.To love is to empower.To love is to suffer with.To love is to become vulnerable.To love is to share.To love is to be defenseless.

Jeremiah 32:1-7Luke 1:26-56

Jeremiah 32:1-7Luke 1:26-56

Jeremiah 32:1-7Luke 1:26-56

Jeremiah 32:1-7Luke 1:26-56

Isaiah 10:33-34Isaiah 11:1-10Politics is based on the power of the sword. But Isaiah was waiting for the day when nations “shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Alliances involve preparation for war, but Isaiah was horrified by the brutalities and carnage which war entails. In his boundless yearning he had a vision for the day when “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” War spawns death. Israel’s security lies in the covenant with God, not in covenants with Egypt or other nations. The mysterious power of faith maintains: God alone is our true protection. Such power will not collapse in the hour of disaster…Never must a calamity shake Israel’s trust.–Abraham Joshua HeschelWaiting on God is an act of resistance.

Isaiah 10:33-34Isaiah 11:1-10Politics is based on the power of the sword. But Isaiah was waiting for the day when nations “shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Alliances involve preparation for war, but Isaiah was horrified by the brutalities and carnage which war entails. In his boundless yearning he had a vision for the day when “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” War spawns death. Israel’s security lies in the covenant with God, not in covenants with Egypt or other nations. The mysterious power of faith maintains: God alone is our true protection. Such power will not collapse in the hour of disaster…Never must a calamity shake Israel’s trust.–Abraham Joshua HeschelWaiting on God is an act of resistance.

Isaiah 10:33-34Isaiah 11:1-10Politics is based on the power of the sword. But Isaiah was waiting for the day when nations “shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Alliances involve preparation for war, but Isaiah was horrified by the brutalities and carnage which war entails. In his boundless yearning he had a vision for the day when “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” War spawns death. Israel’s security lies in the covenant with God, not in covenants with Egypt or other nations. The mysterious power of faith maintains: God alone is our true protection. Such power will not collapse in the hour of disaster…Never must a calamity shake Israel’s trust.–Abraham Joshua HeschelWaiting on God is an act of resistance.

Isaiah 10:33-34Isaiah 11:1-10Politics is based on the power of the sword. But Isaiah was waiting for the day when nations “shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Alliances involve preparation for war, but Isaiah was horrified by the brutalities and carnage which war entails. In his boundless yearning he had a vision for the day when “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” War spawns death. Israel’s security lies in the covenant with God, not in covenants with Egypt or other nations. The mysterious power of faith maintains: God alone is our true protection. Such power will not collapse in the hour of disaster…Never must a calamity shake Israel’s trust.–Abraham Joshua HeschelWaiting on God is an act of resistance.