Exile and hope is a last touching on our Story before we get to a pinnacle moment, the birth of Jesus. It's difficult to know what we can say. I am not certain I am completely in agreement with Brueggeman's take that we are living in a modern exile. Nothing to the magnitude of the Israelite experience of the exile. Perhaps I'm just not seeing it because I'm too close to it. I am not feeling this exile.
I am wondering about how close I am to catching the meaning of this journey that leads us to the birth of God-with-us. Not the physical journey there but the Story that leads to Divine intervention.
