“As I looked upon the guests at the wedding feast, lo, my eyes came upon a face of a man like unto none other I have seen in all my wretched life. A carpenter of Nazareth. And behold, he had no halo! All his goodness was within him…

I knew that this man also had the power to see halos. But as he turned his eyes on me I saw that he was not looking at my halo. When at length I was able to disengage my eyes from his and to look once more upon all the other guests, about the head of each of them, at first I seemed to see a halo made perfect. Then, even as I watched,…each halo dissolved and disappeared and each face began to glow from within as if kindled by the radiance that shone from his face.

We live in a world where we judge people on the basis of, “does their halo match my halo?” If it doesn’t match ours, then we judge and often hate that person.

We have just ended the season where we celebrate the birth of the person who, in this story, could see halos but does not look at them. The one person, ever, who can make halos perfect. It is our job to tell about that person and reflect the glow that we receive from His face.

Blessings Pastor Art

** The man who Hated Halos from The Secret Life of the Good Samaritan by Robert John Versteeg.