“Lord, to whom shall we go?” (John 6:68).
For you, that may not be a desperate prayer but for many people today it is. Back from his lunch break, Jose Moran, a maintenance worker at Church of the Holy Child Jesus in Queens, New York, heard cries coming from the nativity just put up inside the church. Just put up…the statues of the Holy Family weren’t yet in place. He goes closer and finds a newly born infant, covered with a towel, lying in the manger. An abandoned baby? A mother who in her desperation turned to the church? “It’s not uncommon,” said Rocio Fidalgo of the Diocese of Brooklyn. “But we feel and we believe that these mothers trust our churches in the middle of their desperation.” “Lord, to whom shall we go?” (New York Times, November 26; A32)
You know the Baby who says, “Come unto Me” (Matthew 11:28). Today when you see a nativity, remember the desperate who don’t yet know where to turn. “Lord, lay some soul upon my heart, and love that soul through me; and may I bravely do my part to win that soul for Thee.”
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