Light Into The Darkness

I mentioned to one of the “Sandys” in our congregation that this was not a good month for people with her name.


Between the devastation of Hurricane Sandy and the sorrow of Sandy Hook Elementary School, this has been a horrible month.

Christmas comes with lots of cute ways that we celebrate it, but they are cultural.

Read the Christmas story in the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John and try to understand it as it is.

It is the story of a young rejected family, hunted and alone, except for the odd, smelly shepherds and the terrifying angels.

It is a cold night for God become human flesh as a BABY.

And yet God comes in the midst of dislocation and suffering.

God brings light into the darkness.

And, though the darkness is still around the light, it has not overcome it.