Peninsula Times November
I recently
read an article that said:
“Halloween is also a sort of
marker in the calendar, a turning
point in our year, when the fallen leaves and passing of a season are swept away by the pre-winds of winter and we brace ourselves for the uncertainties of a dreary dark winter. I’m reminded of this as I listen to Sting’s album, “If On a Winter’s night.”
point in our year, when the fallen leaves and passing of a season are swept away by the pre-winds of winter and we brace ourselves for the uncertainties of a dreary dark winter. I’m reminded of this as I listen to Sting’s album, “If On a Winter’s night.”
‘If Halloween is not for you,
lighten your spirit! Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. If
this season tells us anything, it speaks to the need we all have for
celebrations that brighten the dark times. ‘
Autumn is a strange time a year, a time of
change and a time of darkness. In our country as in many others we put our
clocks back to try and grab an extra hour of day light but the nights still seem
to draw in very quickly as does the cold damp weather.
The darkness of the season is also perpetuated
by the celebrations of Halloween and Bon fire night…what are we really
celebrating any way or is it just a good excuse for a party?
I have never been a fan of the dark,
metaphorically or literally! There just seems something sinister and altogether
unnerving about it all. I am the one who hides behind the sofa during Dr Who ,
who used to have nightmares watching Scooby Doo and who could definitely not
watching any given horror film, mock or real.
That is why I love this verse quoted from Sting,
it reminds us that very soon the joyful occasion of Christmas is just around
the corner. Surely it is better to celebrate the birth of the Saviour of the
World rather than the capital punishment of a man from the sixteenth Century or
dressing up as ghosts and ghoulies remembering
the spirits of the dead.
So as the darkness descends upon us, as the cold winter takes its hold, let us hold on to the fact that the Son is coming, the light of the world shines amongst us and we have nothing to fear if we put our trust in Him.
So as the darkness descends upon us, as the cold winter takes its hold, let us hold on to the fact that the Son is coming, the light of the world shines amongst us and we have nothing to fear if we put our trust in Him.
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