Christmas is a season of light. Light comes into the world, new joy abounds, and there is a freshness and vitality of life. More than one person tells me each year as they shake my hand after Christmas Eve worship that they will be coming back to church regularly. Christmas lights their flame anew. Trouble is the light ebbs and in time no one lights the tree.
Faith says that the light needs to continue to grow.
In the church, Epiphany is that season of ever expanding light. For the light to shape our life, we need to live in the light of Epiphany, experience the manifestation of God's presence in everyday ways. I had planned to write about this when I read the following essay. An 18-year old sat down in school and wrote it as a final exam in her Precollege English class. It captures the realities of everyday life and sees in them epiphanies, the manifestation of God's light in the world.