But I wonder if it is also a way to shut out the world; to create our own world in our own mind. I wonder if we bow our heads and close our eyes in order to blot out the reality of the world we live in.
If so, we are not following Jesus - the one who stepped into the muddy water of the Jordan River and then walked out into his world to heal the sick, include the outcast, love the unlovable, free those who were held captive and seek justice for others.
Not just food and shelter and clothes and justice and freedom and a living wage for his own family. No, Jesus counted every other person as family - and then he worked for the weakest of them. We are called to do the same.
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