epiphany sunday, year a

And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.
~Matthew 2:12
 
Yet again in Matthew, a dream alters the future. This one comes to the magi (did they all three share it?). Do not trust Herod and his hungers. Go home by another way.
 
Another route home, of course, is also no new thing. Whenever we meet truth we are changed by it; souls awakened, lives transformed, we are set on a corrected path, the way forever altered.
 
Enter into worship.
 
Readings: Isaiah 60:1-6 † Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14 † Ephesians 3:1-12 † Matthew 2:1-12
 
About the Art: Herod with the Wise Men, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58872 [retrieved December 22, 2025]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ahrweiler_St.Laurentius609.JPG.

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