Happy Birthday! Happy Homecoming!
September 28 is the feast day for Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, born in the year 907, and best known from the Christmas carol that bears his name, “Good King Wenceslaus.” He was said to have a kind, generous nature, and those virtues are memorialized in the carol: the good king wanders out into a bitterly cold winter night, bringing gifts of food and warmth to a poor peasant, pressing into the snow footprints that radiate his warmth — so that other good souls may follow.
I sometimes wonder if we underestimate the power of simple compassion and generosity. There is, perhaps, no better practice to train our own eyes to see those things that are seen by God’s eyes. There is, perhaps, no better way to work toward becoming a people reflecting, even embodying the God of Infinite Love, Healing Grace, and Radical Hospitality. You are a generous congregation, Union Christian Church (DOC). May we celebrate that among so many other things this Sunday. Happy Homecoming!
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Alan