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Good morning

If you鈥檙e a regular listener to Prayer for the Day then the chances are that like me you also find yourself tuned into Tweet of the Day just before 6 when in 90 seconds or so we鈥檙e are given a vivid audio snapshot of yet another breed of bird
- Anything from our best loved local songsters to the more exotic breeds from around the world
- everything from the Resplendent Quetzel to the Great King Penguin and those other species, which to our island peoples will always be deemed as foreigners!

And then there are the migrants who to ensure survival, come and go from our shores, from the wild geese currently arriving from the Arctic to the swallows now lining up for their journey back to Africa.

I can remember vividly one April evening a few years ago driving back from the east coast of the Ards Peninsula and looking up into the sky where the Brent Geese in V shaped formation were flying north into the dusk only to awake next morning to the sound of the first swallows swirling and swooping in the sky.

Migration is of course part of our human history too from the wandering Abraham whose later descendents were to become economic migrants in Egypt where they were abused,
to their successors back in Israel carried off as involuntary migrants and trafficked into slavery in Babylon, and then centuries later, those other two famous refugees in Egypt
Mary and Joseph who nurtured their little son Jesus in that place, Jesus, the one who has always called us back to a true sense of perspective on our world whether he鈥檚 pointing to the birds of the air or commending that OTHER outsider, the one made famous
as the GOOD Samaritan.

Lord, help me to see you in those I meet today and to welcome all in your Holy Name.
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