“. . . God is working in silent, quiet ways among us, liberating prisoners and watching over the stranger (the foreigner). But this work does not happen without us. In the giving of a glass of water, in the sharing of a meal, in the welcome to a refugee, in all these ways God is working with us towards what is our deepest Advent hope: the vision of a splendid universal communion.”
Dirk G. Lange, Associate Dean, Graduate Theological Education and Fredrik A. Schiotz Chair of Missions and Professor of Worship at Luther Seminary (St. Paul, MN), from the seminary’s “God Pause” online devotional, December 13, 2016