27 September 2010
Little Joys
Had a very early hospital call this a.m. Got to DesPeres Hospital just after 5. And there above the hospital, the stars were shining. They were positively shimmering in the crisp air. I wanted to stop right there and break out into "Creator of the Stars of Night!" but I was already a few minutes later than I had intended. On the way home, though, another joy: to watch the sun leap up. We have trees in the way here at the house, so it peaks through them first. But out on the open highway there was nothing to block it. It shone with vigor - not a cloud in the sky. "The day from on high shall dawn upon us to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death." Such matchless beauty in each one. God made them for signs. Signs point to something beyond themselves, and so do the stars and the sun. They point us to Him who is Uncreated Light of Light and who shone among us the light of His love to call us to an eternal home with Him!
Positively one of my favor Advent Hymn. Thank you Rev Weedon for this pocket of joy. It is men like you who are so helpful in our jouney back to Eden by always pointing us to Christ who leads us.
ReplyDeleteYou can also consider this: when you look at the light from the "stars", you are actually looking back in time, as the twinkle twinkle of the little star is from an event long since past whose light is just now reaching us. We actually have no idea what is going on with said star now. Not that I'm trying to make anyone a Nominalist, or worse, a Franciscan, like miserable Occam, who was both.
ReplyDeleteAnd you probably like Keats and Hopkins [regardless of their religious sentiments]
ReplyDeleteI do!
ReplyDeleteOh no, not Hopkins too?!?!
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