We've journeyed from creation and fall to the birth of our Savior.
Today's text - Luke 2:6-21
Jesus is not in the palace nursery
nor is he found in the places of power and wealth.
Jesus is not in his home surrounded by his relatives in Nazareth, everyone admiring him.
nor is he found under the tree a midst the pretty packages, nor the Jim Shore designed creche sitting on our wine chest.
Where is Jesus?
Jesus is in a feed trough, most likely, in a cave reserved for livestock
or in a slum shack made of cardboard and tin in Honduras.
Jesus is rocked by refugee parents escaping to Egypt
or refugees in Sudan, displaced by war and famine.
Jesus is hanging out with the night-shift minimum wage shepherds
or the night-shift worker at 7-11.
Jesus is the person who needs a cup of cold water, or a coat, or a visit in prison
or the nursing home.
Jesus was born in the margins and still resides in the margins.
If you want to find him, look there.
Places of poverty and displacement.
Places of rejection and suffering.
Joy to the World - the Lord is come!
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