An epiphany is a revealing, a manifestation, and in this epiphany of Christ to the gentiles the good news of the saving love of God is revealed to those who were not Jewish – the rest of the world, to you and me. Magi, wise men, astrologers, followed a star that they knew was a portent of a great king to be born. As some say today, they followed the science.
I find it curious that the January 6 rally in 2021 in Washington D.C. was on the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord. The rally and protest, hoping to recount the electoral votes, that became disruptive has been proven to my satisfaction to be just that, and no where near an “insurrection.” Innocent citizens have since been arrested, jailed, and in the process had their livelihoods destroyed, their families victimized. The witch hunt was and is a dark moment in our history, and all because concerned citizens voiced their doubts that the 2020 presidential election was a fair and free election. Since that time, courts have refused to hear the case that ballots were fraudulent, that the dead rose and voted, that imaginary folks became citizens, that illegal shenanigans of many stripes cast grave questions on the integrity of the election. Over the last three years video tapes of the event and FBI whistleblowers testify that those doubts were and are well founded. Today, we live in fear that the government will raid our homes in the middle of the night for no justifiable reason than to set examples. Sounds like Stalin and Mao to me.
Americans seek the light of truth. They desire to know what really happened on that wintry day in Washington DC. They want to know if there was election interference in the fall of 2020. They seek the light, the light of revelation, the light of truth.
Just so, we seek the light of Christ. Who was this man? What does his birth, life, death, and resurrection mean for us? We ask again and again, for the answers are many and all one and the same – he is the Son of God, come to save us from sin and death. When he rises at Easter, we rise too.
And just so, we must bear the burden of his cross, for to love is to suffer, to deny oneself out of love for another. This is the light of Jesus, and it is a bright and revealing one.
There is a great realignment in our country, because of our government’s persecution of the innocent, an unequal justice under the law. My generation – the early boomers – studied history and civics and what it means to be an American in this great and unique country. Some of us are waking up to this war of the woke upon the average citizen. We see several generations who praise Stalin, Mao, and Hitler for they don’t seem to be aware of the one hundred million killed in the twentieth century under these regimes. Some of us are waking to the woke.
And so the light of Christ shines upon our country, our country founded on the Judeo-Christian ethos – love of neighbor, of justice, of the law. The star shines upon our earth, giving light to those who wish to see. For we are free still, and we can still choose to see or not to see.
When the light of Christ shines, when that Epiphany star beckons us to Bethlehem and to the cross, we see in a whole new way. We see that we are so uniquely different from one another. No two persons are alike. I find this to be a great marvel and mystery. We know so much about genes today – the full information helix ladders that define each person from conception – and yet even so, people continue to enthrall me. Those I have known for a time, I see in the light of Christ new features, new qualities, delicate and beautiful, wise and wonderful, thoughtful and full of thoughts. Those I meet for the first time offer a universe of detail, a book of life, a sculpture of many dimensions. All of life is a canvas of incredible beauty and stunning composition.
To not appreciate such light is to live in the dark. Again, our own choice.
But when you choose the light, there is no going back, for the joyful adventure you will embark upon will be greater with each turn of the path and page, each sacrament, each prayer, each moment we say “yes” to the will of God in our lives. The more we say yes, the greater the joy.
The star of Epiphany burns bright. We need only follow it, to see. We need only turn away, to be blind. The star enlightens our world, showing us the truth of who we are, past, present, and future. The star makes sense of it all.
And all across our exceptional land of America, the star is shining, revealing, birthing prophecy. Be not afraid, for God loves us, each and every one.
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For an excellent summary of January 6, 2021 in WDC by a witness to the rally, check out Jeff Minick’s articles at Intellectual Takeout, and for numerous videos along with other witnesses and whistleblowers, see the Epoch Times.
Christine Sunderland
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