"The light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not."
The older King James Bible elegantly translates the ambiguity of a word meaning both 'overcome' and 'understand.'
Darkness cannot extinguish the light that contradicts it. To darkness, light is incomprehensible, a reality beyond its known categories.
Advent is a celebration of hoped for light, long longed for peace, delayed but coming justice, the advent and adventure of God, taking up again the tools of creation to begin the new creation.
This time not by fiat, "Let there be…". "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us…"
Light shineth!
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