all is calm, all is bright
I scheduled a couple posts for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, knowing that I was unlikely to have an opportunity to write them day-of... and then promptly missed 12/26 and 12/27. Oops. 'Tis the season.
Which leads me to my reaction to today's line: all is calm and all is bright? I find that most of the time, I experience these as either/or. Bright can be a delight (ha), but bright is seldom calm. Calm, on the other hand, trends toward muted tones.
This reference to the (The) Silent Night being both calm *and* bright comes to me on a day I've been thinking once again about a vision of life that sets abundance over scarcity and collaboration over opposition. When God enters the world, we get both/and. God's kingdom is bigger than ours. God can hold what we see as tension within a larger, deeper, wider realm.
Thanks be to God!
Which leads me to my reaction to today's line: all is calm and all is bright? I find that most of the time, I experience these as either/or. Bright can be a delight (ha), but bright is seldom calm. Calm, on the other hand, trends toward muted tones.
This reference to the (The) Silent Night being both calm *and* bright comes to me on a day I've been thinking once again about a vision of life that sets abundance over scarcity and collaboration over opposition. When God enters the world, we get both/and. God's kingdom is bigger than ours. God can hold what we see as tension within a larger, deeper, wider realm.
Thanks be to God!
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