Refugees

Matthew 2:13-23
Gospel Reading for the First Sunday after Christmas (Year A)

I’m presently working on a sermon for tomorrow (using a non-Lectionary text), but I wanted to do something to remember this week’s gospel passage about Mary, Joseph, and Jesus escaping to Egypt as refugees. I am not a good artist by any stretch of the imagination, but I was inspired to sketch the drawing above from a photograph that I saw of Central American refugees. We shouldn’t ever forget that Christ too was a refugee and whatever we do to those who are seeking shelter, it is as if we were doing it to him.