"...
the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the
land of the shadow of death a light has dawned..."
(Matthew 4:16 NIV)
We had been living at the school in Norway
for a few months. Autumn was unusually dark and dreary. The isolation in the
new environment made life extra difficult, and depression lurked around the
corner. Then I awoke in the middle of the night to the most wonderful song. It
was like an angel’s choir. At first I thought I was in heaven, and then I began
to be more rational wondering about the source of the song. Was it the radio,
which suddenly turned itself on? Was it the neighbors who had gone mad and
started playing loud music in the middle of the night? The song was so near,
yet distant, and it did not cease, so we searched our way towards the source of
the sound. Did it come from outside? Yes - when we pulled up the shade, we found
the school choir, who stood outside our bedroom window on ground floor and
sang. They sang about the light that breaks through the darkness and the power
of death, and the song went straight into my heart.
Lucia is not celebrated
in the same way in Norway as
in Sweden
and thus came the song greeting unexpectedly that morning of Lucia, the 13th
of December. That’s how God can come in the most unexpected ways, with the
greeting that He loves us also during the dark days of life.
Prayer
Lord, I want to let the song of light that
breaks through the darkest night, singing about You Jesus Christ, to sound in
my most inner being today.
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