We are focused on what we want, what has to happen, what needs to be done. The readings for these final hours of Advent tell us that in the end, what we need is not found on aisle 7 of WalMart. It was from this small, insignificant town that David, the unlikely King, came. The prophet Micah, looking back at that place says that no one should ever think their life is too ordinary, to unimportant. God loves each of us, even when we, like David, are not very good.
Every life matters.
This was the place where Elizabeth, Mary s cousin lived. A small town outside of Jerusalem, it was here that Elizabeth who thought she could not have a child, was blessed with a son. The story reminds us that for God, no situation, no person, no moment is so hopeless that a new beginning could not come from it. YOUR HOME I want you to do me a favor. I want you to go home.