About this Blog

The title of this blog is "tous magous," which is Greek for, "the wisemen" or "the magi." I've always thought it sounded funny and I've spent a lot of time thinking about the magi. They were leaders who followed signs to find the promised messiah, Jesus.  They were sent by Herod whose goal was to kill Jesus as a child so that he could not fulfill prophecies about the messiah.  The magi, though they found the child, did not give his whereabouts to Herod.  Instead, they gave gifts to the child and let him live. 

That sounds nice.  It's a nice story (if you ignore the part about Herod having countless children killed in attempt to prevent the messiah's reign).  But, I imagine it took the magi a little while to find the child.  They navigated by the sky, they traveled miles and miles.  And they brought gifts to the one whose purpose was to gift them with life.

 At some basic level, I think we all search for the messiah.  We search for something to save us--whether we need political freedom, physical healing, spiritual wholeness, emotional security.  We search for salvation.  That is what the magi, maybe unknowingly, searched.  At the very least, this search is a Christian "thing," and at most, it is a "human" thing. 

So, this blog is called, "tous magous."

I think the blog is mostly about finding a call, finding a place in the world, and finding salvation in daily living.