See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? + Is. 43:18-19
For Christians, the day after Christmas resets the calendar; Jesus' birth begins the rebirth of a broken world; this historical nativity changes everything for everyone forever. And so, on the Feast of Stephen on December 26, as we remember the first Christian martyr through to Epiphany, January 6, as we remember the Gospel was already reaching the nations when the magi came to worship King Jesus, we take the flickering flame from Bethlehem and start kindling fires, igniting tiny conspiracies of hope. In the stale hangover of the morning after, we open wide the windows and breathe deep: “Everything is beginning. Everything is new. Anything just became possible.”
This is a moment for the world to reimagine its future, to honour the pain of the passing year without pledging it our allegiance. To proclaim again the great insurrection: good news to the poor (bad news to the other lot). The days of this current regime and its long dark winter are numbered. The earth tilts. The dawn bleeds north. Seasons change. The summer Son has come, the baby born to be King is cloistered in our midst, growing quietly, and His Kingdom shall soon be revealed.
+ Pete Greig
"These fragile bodies of touch and taste...
Never a breath you can't afford to waste...
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight,
You gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight."
+ Bruce Cockburn ~ Lovers in a Dangerous Time
"Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut hate off and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love ...
Turn on the dim and beautiful and powerful lights of love in this world, (otherwise) the whole of our civilization will be plunged into the abyss of destruction."
+ MLK ~ On Loving Your Enemies
Prayer
Inhale: Lord, You are doing a loving new thing ...
Exhale: … may I perceive and participate in the new possibilities.
With wild wonder and hope,
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