Watching, reading about or listening to the news is becoming more of a challenge. Disasters of all kind, bickering and character assassinations at every level, crashing economies and political upheavals, wars and uprisings and sit-ins, moral failures of those that we trusted or wanted to place trust in, are the news of the day. It does not take the early darkness of Winter to force us to desire a new Spring, a new beginning.
The Scriptures of this Advent season present us with a vision of hope, with an awareness that an invitation was given us to be children of light, a promise made that reminds us that we have been chosen to be victorious over all things, over all powers, over all darkness. The word in today's reading from the prophet is addressed not to the leaders of the people, not to the power brokers, not to the wealthy ... but rather to the deaf, the blind, the lowly, the poor, the humble, the condemned. For they will hear the words of a book ... they will see beyond the gloom and darkness ... they will find joy and rejoice in the Lord ...they will outlast the tyrant, the arrogant, those who desire evil. They may be a remnant, a minority, a single tree on the landscape - but they will be regarded as an orchard, and the orchard as a forest. When that remnant cries out, as did the blind men in the Gospel today "Son of David, have pity on us!", they will see and hear and rejoice and live, and they will tell the world the Good News.
Does any of this sound appealing to you? I does to me. Lord, have pity on us!
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