{"id":9528,"date":"2022-12-27T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2022-12-25T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T18:38:38","slug":"january-1-2023-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/january-1-2023-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"January 1, 2023–Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no Faith Lens for January 1. \u00a0 Instead, a collage of images, thoughts, and texts on which to reflect during the week after Christmas Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Freedom isn’t free.” (Bumpersticker for a charity serving wounded veterans)<\/p>\n

“At the end of last year [2021], more than 450 million children \u2013 or one in six \u2013 were living in a conflict zone, the highest number in 20 years. A record 36,5 million children were displaced from their homes as a \"\"<\/a>result of conflict, violence and other crises.” (United Nations Report)<\/p>\n

“When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men.Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:
\n\u2018A voice was heard in Ramah,
\nwailing and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
\nshe refused to be consoled, because they are no more.\u2019”
\n–(Appointed lesson for the Commemoration of \u00a0the Holy Innocents)–<\/p>\n

“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.”<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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