Her advice presumes that neither Charlie nor we shall easily catch, much less question, her presumption of darkness, that Charlie Brown has no light by which to see. Isaiah envisions a dreamlike world in which God s temple crowns the mountain, all people streaming to it, united in shared belief and common conviction. The strength of Lucifer is the lie, and Lucy s presumption is false. Lucy s presumption, shared by many, is that darkness reigns over this earth and over our human life. Rinsing the bathroom glass is a toast to the victory of ultimate darkness.
Advent is a season of proclamation.
Week by week we light the candles of the Advent wreath not as a talisman against the darkness but as a testimony to the Light. Isaiah saw the Light and proclaimed it in a vision of a world created by one Creator, a world where the darkness of hatred and hostility were overcome by shared work and welfare, a world that belongs not to darkness but to God. We can only live fully into the premise and the promise that God is here, that Light has prevailed over darkness. Christians profess to have chosen the Light. In the eucharist we celebrate the victory of light over darkness, of life over death.