21 Dec 2015
Even though we haven’t had much of a winter, it still is
something to remember that today is the Winter Solstice. And with that, the Lord says to us: “Arise,
my beloved, my dove, my beautiful one, and come! For see, the winter is past, the rains are
over and gone . . . and the song of the dove is heard in our land.” Today is the last of the long, dark
nights. And it’s the beginning of
longer, brighter days.
Of course, this is what we’re preparing to celebrate: the
birth of Light into our lives. And, as
the psalmist says: “In him our hearts rejoice!”
We’re like John the Baptist who “leapt” in Elizabeth’s womb when Jesus
came to him. We’re like that Bride in
the Song of Songs: “Hark! my lover—here he comes, springing across the
mountains, leaping across the hills.”
And there’s playfulness as the Lord “gazes through the windows, [and]
peers through the lattices."
The world has begun its turn from darkness to light, and so
do we. Light and Peace have come to us
in Christ Jesus—the Lord, the Infant, the Playful One who says: “Arise, my
beloved, my dove, my beautiful one, and come!”
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