bramble, (at the edge of the healing woods)

it’s messy

a myriad of thickets and

thorns

tangled

and mangled

like broken societies

disturbed and

disturbing

(the whole perturbed world

for that matter)

it's "all gone to hell in a hand basket"

my grandfather used to say

but did you know

that long ago

Someone

saw something

worth saving

“And they laid him in a manger because there was no room for him in the inn.”  Luke 2:7

When i reflect upon the tragedy in our country this past week (the Florida school shooting), i can’t help but think of the innocent child laid in a manger those many short years ago. Sent down to this broken world to make a way for us through the thorny thickets…… to the healing woods beyond.