Living With the Text for the Fourth Sunday in Advent

Living with the Text This Week, we look forward to Sunday when we light the Candle of Love. We haven't yet made it to the Manger of Bethlehem, but we are close! We stop at the outskirts of Bethlehem, and visit Shepherds out in the fields keeping watch over their flocks by night--Luke 2:8. Bethlehem's fields are a place of humility, and here we find that God honors the humble. God blesses the humble. And God restores the humble to their God-given value, dignity, identity and legacy.