At The Place of Your Birth

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Bethlehem, Birth, Christianity, Church of the Nativity, Faith, God, Jesus, Palestine, Religion, Travel, West Bank

Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Palestine

September 12, 2013I can’t connect here.  The “site” of your birth is just a shrine to me.  It’s hard for me to come and give thanks to you here.  I find I just come to consume, to get my picture and go.  It makes me feel terrible.

So, I watch the others — those to whom all this seems to mean something.  And, wondrously, through them I am able to connect.  Through them I can feel something.  I guess that’s what it means to be a community, why we are called to be a community — a covenant people.