[iii] a myrrh-mur, rising
Lectionary readings: Isaiah 60:1-6 and Matthew
2:1-12
I don’t know what darkness you are journeying through
today. Some of you have let me in enough to give me a glimpse, but I cannot
experience your darkness as you experience it; nor you, mine. I do know that
some of the darkness, at least, is holy. Bereavement, grief, is holy. I know,
also, that there is darkness in your life that is the culmination of the sin of
the world, that awareness that the days we are living in are lacking in justice
and mercy; and I am reminded, again, that this present darkness is passing
away. Until it does, stand still, breathe deep and slowly, and watch the dawn.
Allow your heart to thrill and rejoice, for Jesus is the omega and the alpha,
the End, and the new Beginning.
I don’t know what darkness you will journey through in
the year ahead, but I know that Jesus is the brightness of your dawn. And I
sense that he would have me offer to anoint you with myrrh [oil of Chrism],
for, with the Magi, traditionally known as kings, all those who kneel before
the Christ-child in adoration are anointed kings and queens, crowned with the
glory of the Lord. Living promises of the dawn that is breaking.
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