Drawn to the light

As we enter this new year, 2009, Barbara Moyer Lehman, associate pastor at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, asked her congregation, what are we drawn to, what is inviting us, who are we following, or what star are we following? Are we following something that reflects the light of Christ? Are our decisions good ones, ones we can embrace wholeheartedly, and know that what we are doing illumines for us and for others the welcoming face of God? She gave as an example the poem at the base of the Statute of Liberty in New York City's harbor, where the outstretched arms of that symbol welcomed the millions, the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free."