This week we are continuing our “recover your life" series looking at John 9:1-12. We looked at how to practise hospitality during Covid-19. In welcoming the stranger we may actually be welcoming Jesus. Message Quotes: "Jesus didn’t come to make us a christian he came to make us fully human." - Hans Rookmaker “Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.” - Henri Nouwen “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” - Ellie Wiesel God has taken on a disguise, a most unlikely disguise of the stranger, the poor, the hungry, the prisoner, the sick, the ragged ones of the earth. “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it for me. If we cannot detect God’s presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places." - Philip Yancey For us, “Satan” and “wild animals” refer particularly to the chaos inside of us that normally we either deny or simply refuse to face – our paranoia, our anger, our jealousies, our distance from others, our fantasies, our grandiosity, our addictions, our unresolved hurts, our incapacity to really pray, our faith doubts, and our moral secrets. The normal food that we eat, distracted ordinary life, works to shield us from the deeper chaos that lurks beneath the surface of our lives. Lent invites us to stop eating whatever protects us from having to face the desert that is inside of us. - Ronald Rolhesier
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