How difficult it is to live in another culture! You don't know much of the language or the customs and traditions. You don't know whether you can find a new job. You may find that you have to relearn almost everything including the food you eat or the clothes you wear. You have to adapt to the climate and the laws. You have to learn to understand the people living there.
This becomes even more difficult when you have a child. You worry how the child will adapt in that new place. You wonder how he will grow up there. This is especially true if you live amongst a people that does not recognize your faith.
Let us take to heart all the difficulties of families fleeing to another culture as we reflect upon the second sorrow of Mary, her flight to Egypt!
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." - Matthew 2:13, WEB
This becomes even more difficult when you have a child. You worry how the child will adapt in that new place. You wonder how he will grow up there. This is especially true if you live amongst a people that does not recognize your faith.
Let us take to heart all the difficulties of families fleeing to another culture as we reflect upon the second sorrow of Mary, her flight to Egypt!
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." - Matthew 2:13, WEB