“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience […] Above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word and deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.” Colossians 3: 12-25
I THINK I am beginning to comprehend what it was I felt that night; the grace of our humanness connecting refugees, immigrants, expats and natives. A whole world of people watching and waiting for a beautiful belonging to emerge from brokenness.
When my family was moving from the United States to Scotland for the second time, we settled for a month on the top flat of an apartment block that overlooked the Marsascala Bay and Mediterranean Sea. I remember lying on the cold tile, staring up into a sky-weeping sunrise.