At our Eucharist, we celebrated the Nativity, the Epiphany, and the Theophany all in one. We were reminded in our shared homily that the in breaking of G-O-D into time is sometimes brilliant LIGHT, but just as often, beholding life in a soft LIGHT, even sometimes slightly out of focus. And too that the rupture, the parting of the clouds over our brother Jesus in the Jordan was most astonishing in saying "This is my Beloved." That this in breaking heralds for all of us if we but claim it that we too are called "Beloved" by the Holy. Yes, astonishing!
James Joyce wrote that the epiphany was the sudden "revelation of the whatness of a thing," the moment when "the soul of the commonest object ... seems to us radiant."
Yes, we, as our brother Jesus has shown, are all radiant to the Holy in our common humanity.
And now, sisters and brothers, as radiant beloved people let us turn our Light and Love to the needs of others in our world as Howard Thurman reminds us:
The Work of Christmas?
When the song of angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the wise men and wise women are back home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild nations,
To bring peace to all,
To make music in the heart.
Howard Thurman (adapted)
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