Baruch 5:1-9                                             

Canticle 16 (Lk. 1:68-79)  

Philippians 1:3-11                                                               

Luke 3:1-6              

You Are Accepted

“Put on forever the beauty of the glory from God” (Baruch 5).

Who will you be? For a while you have been living away from the place where people really knew you before you put on this current identity. Something has brought you back to town for a couple of days. You have some extra time so you think about seeing that one friend who really understands you (and yet still likes you just the same). You have some hesitation about going over there because that friend sometimes asks hard questions and really gets down to truths that we mostly don’t feel like dealing with.