‘Are
you feeling Christmassy yet?’ If not, that’s quite alright. Christmas – as Rend Collective sing* – is not a feeling. Christmas celebrates a truth – a reality
that Advent points to – that ‘In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from
on high shall break upon us, To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the
shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.’** In Advent we
hold on to the hope that the dawn is on the way, and at Christmas we celebrate
that it came and will come again. The dawn tells us that the darkness in our
lives does not have the final word; but it does not deny that the night can be
bitterly cold.
*We
are playing Rend Collective’s ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Hallelujah’ before
all our Christmas services this year. Check it out on your music streaming
service of choice.
**vv.
9&10 of The Benedictus (The Song of Zechariah) which is ‘normally said’ at
Morning Prayer.
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