Journeying

As part of our Lent series on “Enough” we reflected on refugees.  We shared experiences of travelling, by choice, the desire for somewhere new or dissatisfaction with a present situation, or by compulsion, and we shared how we felt about leaving. We had to decide what to take with us, which could be difficult with limited capacity and not knowing where you were going to finish up, and we compared with the first (?) recorded mass migration, the Exodus. We looked at how we hoped to be received by the people in the place we would arrive. 

We looked at the journeys being undertaken now into Europe and at the stories of migrants. We looked at the pressures facing the receiving countries of Europe, and the responses. We knew that we couldn’t solve the issues right now, but we could look at whether we were doing enough. And we could pray!  How do we respond when prayer is not enough?

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