Today's Daily Lesson comes from Isaiah chapter 9 verse 4:
But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Here is good news for those born on the wrong side of the tracks. Good news for the poor and the contemptible. Good news for those who didn't go to all the right schools or play in the travel league. Here is the good news for -- in the words of Lyle Lovett -- the "busted old town on the plains of West Texas" where "the drugstore's closed down and river's run dry". Here is the good news for the left behind of rural America, for the cotton picker and ginner. Here is good news for Brownfield, for Plainview, for Henrietta, and for Tulia, Texas, "the City with a Future".
Here is the good news, land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, land beyond the suburbs, Galilee of America: You are not forgotten.
Nobody is forgotten.
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