I hope you and yours are enjoying the coming of Christmas. It’s a sobering, peaceful Christmas around here. After a tough week following the search for two missing climbers on Mt. Hood, one of which attended Imago Dei here in Portland, the search was called off due to the improbability of their having survived a brutal week on the mountain. And then a dear friend in Texas was in an accident and is now on life support. I’ll be flying to Texas tomorrow where the reality that life is fragile will no doubt be made clear.
I am grateful, though, that God chose to send hope to a people who, like sheep, had wandered off. I am grateful that Christ pointed us back to God, who is Love, and who taught my friend in the ICU how to love, and who is surrounded by the legacy of love that he created in God’s name. May the peace of Christ be with the families of Katie Nolan, Anthony Vietti and Luke Gullberg, and may the peace of Christ be with the friends and family of David Gentiles, who is like a father to so many of us.
I’ll be back in touch in the new year.
Merry Christmas,
Donald Miller
