Light looked down and saw the darkness.
I will go there’, said light.
Peace looked down and saw war.
‘I will go there’, said peace.
Love looked down and saw hatred.
‘I will go there’, said love.
So he,
the Lord of Light,
the Prince of Peace
the King of Love
came down and crept in beside us.
I love to revisit these words in Advent. Just when you think it’s hopeless and dark a light can be revolutionary. I’m very concerned that there was a far right rally in London using Jesus to get Christmas back and reclaim the nation earlier today. An Anglican vicar called Sally Mann set up two chairs and invited conversation there. She wanted to remind people Jesus was a dark skinned refugee.
Our public issues people have also made a stand…
This was to counter one of the political parties who did this the other day…
Lord have mercy. We need to shine light on narrowness and dangerous rhetoric. The world has been here before and it’s scary but we can with a positive different narrative make a difference.
When it’s dark we need light else we stumble. For various reasons time has been haywire today so I’ve just left my church after a three hour writing session preparing three services and a Christmas card. I took the cards into the hall for tomorrow being all cocky that I knew the way from the vestry to the hall in the dark. Alas I started to miss doors so I needed light after all but where I thought light switches were was way out!! Things are very different in the dark.
I took the picture at the top of this post at St Wilfrid’s Church in Harrogate tonight after the Messiah. More on that tomorrow but in a dark world we need Christian hope and confidence to shine out urgently.
If our faith is that God comes down we cannot stand by and let dark things run riot. Goodness - bit of a serious message today!
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