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Community Reflection Ritual The angel’s announcement makes it clear that the story we celebrate at Christmas is intended to be good news for every person in every part of our world. The story we celebrate at Christmas isn’t just about a baby. The birth of Jesus was the entering of God into our world for all time. It was God showing us what living a life with our hearts and desires set toward building for God’s Kingdom would look like. Each time you light your three candles become aware of a person or group you have recently encountered or become aware of. What “good news” could you bring them? Advent in Art is a project of World Vision New Zealand for the spiritual nurture of staff. www.adventinart.org www.wayneforte.com
Matthew 2: 13-20 The Message Escape to Egypt After the scholars were gone, God’s angel showed up again in Joseph’s dream and commanded, “Get up. Take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. Stay until further notice. Herod is on the hunt for this child, and wants to kill him.” Joseph obeyed. He got up, took the child and his mother under cover of darkness. They were out of town and well on their way by daylight. They lived in Egypt until Herod’s death. This Egyptian exile fulfilled what Hosea had preached: “I called my son out of Egypt.” Herod, when he realized that the scholars had tricked him, flew into a rage. He commanded the murder of every little boy two years old and under who lived in Bethlehem and its surrounding hills. (He determined that age from information he’d gotten from the scholars.) That’s when Jeremiah’s sermon was fulfilled: “A sound was heard in Ramah, weeping and much lament. Rachel weeping for her children, Rachel refusing all solace, Her children gone,dead and buried.” Later, when Herod died, God’s angel appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt: “Up, take the child and his mother and return to Israel. All those out to murder the child are dead.” #4 Rest on Flight to Egypt (after Gentileschi) 2002 Wayne Forte 60 x 96 inches Oil on canvas
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