Friends,

In Sunday's sermon, I preached about a town filled with fear. When Jesus arrives and gives sight to a man who had been blind his whole life, instead of joining the man in celebration, they react with suspicion and throw him out. The way they respond to this man, and the miracle he receives, is a glimpse into what fear does at the societal scale.

All of us have been living in this story in recent months. We’ve been a community wracked with fear that has to choose how to relate to their most vulnerable neighbor. The Twin Cities had to decide: Would we sacrifice the immigrant neighbors among us in order to avoid a military occupation?

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With love,
Susan+

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Tags: neighbors, Healing, Fear, Lent