By Gwen Gustafson-Zook, minister of worship, Goshen College Reprinted from Advent Devotionals Into a weary world bombarded with news of injustice and environmental degradation and hatred and war and violence and greed and exploitation and fear, Christ comes. Innocent. Vulnerable. Beautiful. If I listen closely, I hear the echo of angels: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace to all God’s friends.” The words of the familiar carol resonate in my mind as “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” paints a musical picture of angels appearing through cloven skies with peaceful wings unfurled offering hope to a weary world: Yet with the woes of sin and strife, the world has suffered long; Beneath the heav’nly hymn have rolled two thousand years of wrong, And warring humankind hears not the tidings which they bring. O hush the noise and cease your strife and hear the angels sing. And you, beneath life’s crushing load, whose forms are bending low, who toil along the climbing way with painful steps and slow; Look now! For glad and glorious hours come swiftly on the wing, O rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing. The angels have spoken: Christ has come. The bread has been made. The wassel has been shared. May we, this day of celebration and hope, find the space to “rest beside the weary road and hear the angels sing.” Hebrews 2:10-18 (NRSV)
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