Joy to the world! The
Lord is come: let earth receive her king;
Let every heart
prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing.
With “Joy to the world”
in my heart and mind, I’m looking each of these twelve days of Christmas for
the beauty and wonder in God’s world, for instances of the joy that runs
through all of creation.
Today was unusually warm for December 29 in Nebraska. Early
this morning I thought I heard doves cooing, something I don’t hear most winter
mornings, though the sound was so faint that I wasn’t sure that it was doves. Around
9:30 the sun got just high enough in the sky to really light up the room I was
in, a definite moment of joy! I stepped outside to take a look at the sky and
the sunlight, and noticed this pair sitting at the top of a spruce tree where
doves often sat this summer and fall.
Later in the afternoon, while I was sitting at a window
looking at the photos from the morning and writing, I saw a dove landing at the
top of the same tree. It looked white in the sunlight, and landed in a way that made it look just like a dove ornament we used to have on our Christmas tree. When I got outside to snap a picture, I heard
it calling, and the second dove appeared. Double joy on the fifth day of
Christmas!
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