Morning Meditation: Immigration and Welcome - Story
I sat on the porch of a Mennonite church in McAllen, Texas, three miles from the border, watching a grandmother named Rosa braid her granddaughter's...
This is devotionals on immigration and welcome, drawing on Luke 4:18-19. It carries an emotional tone of hope, compassion and love.
I sat on the porch of a Mennonite church in McAllen, Texas, three miles from the border, watching a grandmother named Rosa braid her granddaughter's hair. They had walked for eleven days. Rosa's shoes had worn through somewhere in Tamaulipas, and a stranger had given her his sandals — a man who had nothing but those sandals and a water jug.…
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