Hope
- was born this day! Without Christmas we are in a world without answers to the darkness that invades our lives invoking only more hatred. Without Christmas we wander in a world without hope. The Incarnation is a mystery. But it provides us with joy and hope for the future...
And Yesterday... This happened....
I was at work, and one of my co-workers was relating a story told her just moments before by a "customer'.
She said, "She just started talking telling me this story, using her hands to interpret...
"I, we, are from Vietnam. We come here. I was in Vietnam. On the street. So hungry. No food, No bread. There were Vietcong. They beat us. [Hands elaborate]. We not have food. Go on street, look for something eat. The Vietcong...They beat us. [Hands elaborate]. So frightened. So hungry. We not know anyway. The Vietcong they still beat us. They take my friend, twenty years for begging for food. When he come out he [Cut throat - hands elaborate]. I so afraid. I look in sky and pray to Budha. Nothing happen. I so afraid. I think, maybe pray to Yeshua. I look in sky and pray Yeshua, [Hebrew name for Jesus] help me. I look in sky, see face, crying, tears [Hands elaborate] falling down face. I look at face, I start to walk. I walk and walk, and come here. I want to build a statue to Yeshua".
Hope. The power of the Incarnate Christ brings us hope in the darkest times, filling our hearts with peace, joy....and hope.