God's Hospitality
World War II is over. The 20th Century is about to crest its halfway point. The big overnight trains are still running at capacity all across America.
The cook lights the kitchen fire before dawn and the dining car comes to life. The breakfast crew bustles to the rhythm of the wheels. Aromas of woodfire, percolating coffee, and comfort-food call expectant passengers from their beds.
The appearance of Emmanuel, God-With-Us, is the arrival of God’s hospitality in our hometown. Emerging suddenly, like a train from a tunnel… its headlight is Bethlehem’s star… its clatter and din is the sound of Gloria in excelsis Deo!
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
“Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”
The Gospel of Luke 2:13-14
Scott Burnett
The cook lights the kitchen fire before dawn and the dining car comes to life. The breakfast crew bustles to the rhythm of the wheels. Aromas of woodfire, percolating coffee, and comfort-food call expectant passengers from their beds.
The appearance of Emmanuel, God-With-Us, is the arrival of God’s hospitality in our hometown. Emerging suddenly, like a train from a tunnel… its headlight is Bethlehem’s star… its clatter and din is the sound of Gloria in excelsis Deo!
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
“Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”
The Gospel of Luke 2:13-14
Scott Burnett
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