The shoe rack sits just
inside the front door. It is a place of
transitions: of putting on our shoes in order to go outside; of taking off our
shoes, and perhaps putting on slippers, as we come in to the house from
outside. A place of arrivals, and
departures.
How might we make room
for Jesus, at the shoe rack?
During Advent, why not
read through the Gospels keeping a particular eye out for stories that are set
just as Jesus arrives in a place, or as he sets out for another? What you will discover is that these
transition-points, on which the story turns, are time and again places where,
in one way or another, the king is welcomed and his kingdom is ushered-in: in
miraculous healings; and intimate conversations, through which the eyes of the
heart are opened.
It would appear that at transition-points, the door between heaven
and earth waits to be opened.
In these places of
arrival and departure, the kingdom of heaven makes its arrival, and lives on
earth set out on a new departure – following the bright star where it may lead,
into the unknown, into danger, into a different journey.
During Advent, why not
pay special attention to those first encounters on leaving or entering your
home:
asking Jesus if there
is a particular word that he would have you speak into that person’s life;
a particular new world
he would have you speak into being?
Advent:
making room for Jesus – on the shoe rack.
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