Join Andrew Williams as he reflects on Victor Hugo’s classic story, Les Miserables.

Episode 3: Jean ValJean Part 1 - "To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God"
The third part of this series on Victor Hugo’s - Les Miserables - this extraordinary tale that speaks of our homesickness for God and our ache for mercy and restoration.

But Hugo is not a theologian. In his own words “He did not study God; he was dazzled by Him.” In fact, he is first a poet and then a novelist, so the book is full of symbolism and allusion and like any good poem – something catches our heart’s eye, and we are invited to dig out its meaning.

One of these jewels, poignantly held out for us at the end of the musical – is Hugo’s conclusion, “To love another person is to see the face of God.”  Hugo has gone directly to Genesis 33:10, where, full of love for his brother, Jacob says to Esau, “For to see your face is like seeing the face of God.”

With Special Guest Leah Mwangi of Saint John Anglican Church in Sutton, MA

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