Sojourners Verse of the Day for 1/26/25:
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Hebrews 13:2
The story below arrived in our inbox on Jan. 27, from a friend. If you still support the Ingrate* of the United States, you helped make this happen. This is not an example of how America is great.
*(see Vocabulary.com).
"Just sharing an upper peninsula immigration story from this week. My neighbor came here in the 80s from Mexico fleeing gang violence and has been a US citizen for 40 years. His son was born here 20 years ago. His wife is from here. They were ordered to "check in" at the Detroit immigration/ border patrol office on Friday. They were not allowed to go to the local office in the Soo. I was so worried for them. Well they went down and luckily came back home the next day. I asked what happened. My neighbor said he had to get a physical and fingerprinted. They ran his fingerprints through some sort of national database to check for unsolved crimes. They also did a background check for anything under his name. Nothing matched him. He has never even had a speeding ticket since coming here! He says it all took less than an hour and could have easily been done locally in our small town. But they were afraid to ask questions or make requests. I'm glad they made it back home. But I'm going to say that if names or fingerprints came up with anything they would not have come back home."
(Reference: Michigan Women for Democracy)
I'm still working at Micah 6:8. It's hard work to do justice; even harder to love mercy when the person I am supposed to love is an ingrate. Hardest of all is walking humbly. But it's essential.
Also, we could wrap our minds around Matthew 7:13-14... “Go in through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to destruction is broad and the road wide, so many people enter through it. But the gate that leads to life is narrow and the road difficult, so few people find it."
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Hebrews 13:2
The story below arrived in our inbox on Jan. 27, from a friend. If you still support the Ingrate* of the United States, you helped make this happen. This is not an example of how America is great.
*(see Vocabulary.com).
"Just sharing an upper peninsula immigration story from this week. My neighbor came here in the 80s from Mexico fleeing gang violence and has been a US citizen for 40 years. His son was born here 20 years ago. His wife is from here. They were ordered to "check in" at the Detroit immigration/ border patrol office on Friday. They were not allowed to go to the local office in the Soo. I was so worried for them. Well they went down and luckily came back home the next day. I asked what happened. My neighbor said he had to get a physical and fingerprinted. They ran his fingerprints through some sort of national database to check for unsolved crimes. They also did a background check for anything under his name. Nothing matched him. He has never even had a speeding ticket since coming here! He says it all took less than an hour and could have easily been done locally in our small town. But they were afraid to ask questions or make requests. I'm glad they made it back home. But I'm going to say that if names or fingerprints came up with anything they would not have come back home."
(Reference: Michigan Women for Democracy)
I'm still working at Micah 6:8. It's hard work to do justice; even harder to love mercy when the person I am supposed to love is an ingrate. Hardest of all is walking humbly. But it's essential.
Also, we could wrap our minds around Matthew 7:13-14... “Go in through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to destruction is broad and the road wide, so many people enter through it. But the gate that leads to life is narrow and the road difficult, so few people find it."
God, I want to be one of those who find it.
