Emphasis Preaching Journal
First Encounter
Commentary
A family has recently moved into a community. As the moving company truck unloads their lifetime of accumulated furniture, valuables, mementos, and numerous boxes and tubs, they look around the neighborhood. This is their first encounter with the new environment they will be spending much of other lives in. True, the wage earner, who has visited here and is employed in the area, has already scoped out the geography of this area.

