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| Silent Night | December 15, 2007, 07:35:05 PM | Maybe it was a silent night. Sometimes that's what I'd like to think. God came down to bring us peace, and the world was wrapped in a moment of wonder that quited nature and Heaven and brought calm into the heart of all mankind.
But I doubt it was like that at all.
God came into a noisy world and lived in our mess and our chaos. The stable was apt. The smells, the noise, the natural state of disarray, could have been a metaphor for the state we found ourselves in.
Shepherds working in a field of sheep weren't likely a particularly clean, neat bunch either. I would imagine they were grubby, dirty, sweaty, smelly. And when the angels announced the coming of Immanual--God with us--whatever hope they had of a quiet night was shattered.
No, it wasn't a silent night. Jesus brought us peace, but he came into our cacophonous hub-bub. He came inot a world that had forgotten what peace was, that lived every day in a state of aimless noise.
We still live like that, don't we? We sing "Silent Night" while living out the chaos. We celebrate His birth with our own noice and grumbling and laughter.
But I wonder, is peace really silent? Shouldn't the coming of the creator into the world be a somewhat noisy event?
Just wondering. |
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