He took a little child whom he placed among them.

Taking the child in his arms, 

he said to them, 

"Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me..."

Mark 9:36-37 NIV

A couple of weeks ago it was the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. A survivor of that horror quoted Elie Wiesel who said "the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference".

This survivor gave a warning about us being or again becoming indifferent to minorities.

Minorities by definition are small.

Just like the child in Jesus arms.

Don't become indifferent to the hurt or suffering of others just because we may not understand it, or its outside of our experience, or it makes us uncomfortable.

You can't wrap someone in your arms and then be indifferent to them.

To wrap someone in your arms you have to get close.

This is how Jesus called us to live, what greatness in the Kingdom looks like.

And it's how Jesus lived. He came close.

Lived among us.

And his love took him to the cross.

The opposite of indifference.

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