If you were unable to be with us on Sunday you can listen to this sermon here.
Mt 2:13-15, 19-23
1. Recall a time of preparation for something big in your life, like the birth of a child. What were your feelings and issues around this? How did it change your life?
2. Mary and Joseph were given little chance to prepare for all of the changes that would turn their lives upside down. Can you recall a major change or event in your life for which you were not given advance warning or time to prepare? How did you make it through? What were your sources of reassurance?
3. Mtr. Mary noted that there will always be Herods who are threatened by truth and by what God is doing in the world. How have you known this to be true in your own experience?
4. We reflected on how places of struggle can become places of salvation. Recall a particularly hard experience in your life. How did the struggles you encountered issue in learnings or blessings? Do you struggle to name anything redeeming about the experience?
5. Can you recall a time when it felt as if God was creating a place of refuge for you?
6. Matthew's Christmas story is harder and more somber than Luke's. Why is it important to recognize the pain and sacrifice that comes with Jesus' incarnation? How might this be comforting to those of us living in the 'worst of places?'
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