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Back in early November I was asked to write a New Year’s prediction for 2021. I am not a big fan of predictions and so, at first, did not give the request a lot of thought. But, then I began to realize that I did have one confident prediction for the coming year. Here is a version of what I wrote. (This first appeared in The Diocesan Post at https://bc.anglican.ca/news/january-2021-diocesan-post)
Over at least the past twenty years, I have written a story to read to the children in church on Christmas Day. This year, my story was read in an empty building, but with children watching live online.
“Love never fails” (1 Cors 13:8)
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’
I was asked yesterday, in a non-church environment, to write a short description of an incident in my life when I found myself “surprised by light.”
11to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord.
8 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.
6While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.
2:1In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.
80 The child grew and became strong in spirit,
and he was in the wilderness until the day he appeared publicly to Israel.
In A Spacious Place 