Stranger and Stranger

Matthew 25 ...I was a stranger and you welcomed me...

     It is easier to welcome the stranger that we don't know, than to welcome the stranger that we THINK we know. There are people around us that we assume we know. People that we may have been acquainted with for years. But they are always at some level strangers to us. And it doesn't take much to make someone you know into a stranger either. An illness, a collision, grief can cause our lives to diverge enough from one another that we become strangers again.

     We are all strange to each other by our looks, our dress, our habits, our actions, and most important our internal personal world made up of our experiences and dream/hopes.

     Do not be seduced by stereotypes, or tied down to traditional hatreds. Do not allow your first impression to become your only impression.

We are all strangers in varying degrees. We are all bearers of the spark of divine creation. We are all deserving of being welcomed.

YOU ARE WELL COME TO THE LOVE OF GOD