Today my friend Twila spoke of Christianity as a blanket to be shared. I love this image. The immediate picture called to mind for me was last week’s funeral for Bill Puffenbarger.
During the committal at the cemetery, it was cold and windy, so the funeral home folk had blankets for the family seated around the casket. The blankets are wide and can cover 3-4 people easily. From my vantage on the other side of the casket, I watched as Brian spread the warming of the blanket on the already-numb family. It was a moving gesture of kindness in the form of practical care.
Kindness is a practical thing, isn’t it?
So I come back to Twila’s vision of us as believers spreading the blanket of our love and caring around a world numbed with its own woundedness.
And I am warmed.
May you be surrounded by a blanket of love and caring this Advent season and evermore.
And to you, dear Beth
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