The Scrappy Sound of Comfort
In this week’s lectionary passage from the Hebrew scriptures, the prophet Isaiah declares to the exiled Israelites that their “penalty is paid,” and that God will “feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead the mother sheep.” It’s a message of comfort to a people wandering in the wilderness -- but it’s also a call to “prepare the way of the Lord, [to] make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” As team member Chris Keating points out in this installment of The Immediate Word, we too yearn for a sim
