He nodded and turned his head away quickly. As I walked down the street to my girlfriend's house, i could hear music. Somehow the Christmas Carol that was playing seemed like an answer for Andy, and even for myself. Let nothing you dismay, Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day. . There is a darkness in the world that we dare not deny.
Darkness touches the lives of everyone.
It is to this darkness that the words of Isaiah speaks. He calls us not to a passive acceptance of the present realities around us. He calls us to embrace the God of new possibilities, the God of resurrections, who can bring light into the darkness. God has not abandoned the world to wait for some future time next year in which to come and fix it all. God is the God of present history coming into the darkness of 2000 to bring light.