42:16 ‘I will turn the darkness into
light before them and make the rough places smooth.’
“the darkest
hour of all is the hour before day”
Darkness
is specially familiar to those in winter time who live in the very Northern
hemisphere. It can be a trying time of the year calling for diversion,
companionship and the comforts of living.
Not for nothing did Christians take over and ‘christen’ pagan festivals
of light. 5,000 years ago a people built such extraordinary edifices as the
Newgrange tomb. Some see in this a mysterious pre-configuration of the mystery
of death and resurrection of Christ 2,000 years ago. Whatever rituals or belief
codes people have used down the ages they continue to be perplexed by the
succession of darkness and light, of death and new life and of decay and new
growth. The seasons tell us that there is a mystery and a momentum in the
working of nature.
Sitting
in the tomb on winter solstice day we await the rising of the sun and the
piercing of light through the tomb with an adjustment for a tilt in the earth’s
axis occurring since the genius of the people that constructed these
extraordinary sites.
May we
never lose hope that light will shine through in the darkest of times and
places.
#JourneyIsaiah
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