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 our hearts and minds, I invite you to join me in looking each of these
twelve days for instances of the joy that runs through all of creation,
especially through experiencing the beauty and wonder of God’s world.
Today’s joys included two sights that seemed just right for
the last day of Christmas and the day before Epiphany.
At Christmas we talk about the true light coming into the
world, and at Epiphany we talk about that light being manifested to the whole
world. There have been several striking sunrises and sunsets during these
twelve days of Christmas, and this morning’s sunrise seemed to be all about the
light:
Right before Christmas I made a batch of date-nut cookies,
cutting them into star shapes. When I took one of the sheets of cookies out of
the oven, three of them fell onto the floor. While they were still warm, I
poked holes in them to hang them by string for the birds and squirrels. The two
stars that had been hanging from a birdfeeder disappeared, though I never saw
who had eaten them or if they had simply fallen. Late this morning, though, a
squirrel climbed up a trellis where I’d hung the third star and carefully
removed it. Then, carrying it in his mouth, he ran up into a tree for a Twelfth
Night feast.
Joy to the world! The
Savior reigns; let us our songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills,
and plains, repeat the sounding joy.
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