“The good news of God brings hope to those who find themselves in the peripheries of our world, but it also belongs there. As ‘a call from the ways untrod,’ God’s good news of grace announces God’s presence on the fringe, God’s love that goes beyond the boundaries of where we thought God was supposed to be, and God’s promise that there is no place on earth God will not go or be for us” — including a manger in a lowly stable.
Karoline Lewis, assistant professor of biblical preaching at Luther Seminary (St. Paul, MN), from “There’s a Voice in the Wilderness: Daily Christian Devotions for Advent”