Fr Jim tells the story of Elizabeth Laird, the “hug lady” of Fort Hood, who for 12 years greeted deploying and returning soldiers with a hug. The soldiers stood in line to receive that hug. Like the hug lady, Christ, as St Paul writes to the Colossians, waits for us at the right hand of God to give us a “hug” – a hug so deep and so filled with love that it turns all our hurt into joy.
Seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
COL 3:1-11
“Blessed are you who are poor … who are now hungry … [and] now weeping… Rejoice and leap for joy on that day!”
LK 6:20-26