Oikos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf6R8f92NC0 This sermon, The Preparer about John the Baptist, 12/6/2015 was so timely to the situation of fear, fight and flight, and catatonic avoidance of taking action of outreach, compassion, trust in the other.  We are in situation where the cave mentality, the Robert Frost describes in mending wall, is antithesis of actions that can make a better wall, where the SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall, the God, the MORE, the ultimate OTHER whom has come close Emmanuel, gives us the strength and courage to trust and love. Thanks to Jenny Weber, First United Methodist Church for preaching it.  Sermon begins about 30 minutes into video.