Contemplating Immigration and Welcome

Dear God of the stranger and the sojourner, You who led Abraham out of Ur with nothing but a promise. You who told Your people seventy-three times in Scripture to welcome the foreigner — because they were once foreigners themselves, eating the bread of affliction in Egypt. I think of the Anabaptist families who fled Switzerland in the dead of winter, 1525, hunted for the crime of baptizing adults and reading Scripture in their own language.…