The End of the World

Gun’s Quote-of-the-Week:

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.”

-Richard Bach

There were some genuine opinions by some that we all wouldn’t make it past the weekend. The proverbial “Mayan Apocalypse” came and went without much fanfare, without much fuss, without much of any major event in the world, actually.

This perhaps surprised some considering all of the darkness surrounding our world in the past few weeks. The crisis in Egypt. The Connecticut shootings. The Fiscal Cliff. In a time when we are often happier and more joy-filled with the upcoming Christmas holiday, we instead had our attention turned to darkness and evil, bickering and death.

One could argue it hasn’t been a very Merry Christmas, and it would be difficult to counter the argument.

Yet, here we are. Despite so many of humanity’s failings in the immediate past, humanity will carol, will give gifts and many of the less fortunate will be blessed by the generosity of others.

We are all still here, and love will prevail.

That is, after all what Christmas is about, right?

In the midst of the world’s darkness, God lights a light… Himself, as human, as one of us. This human comes in to the world and, through love, makes the blind man see, raises Lazarus from the dead, cleans the leper, and forgives the woman. He fed thousands with five loaves and two fish, calmed a storm by raising his hand and walked on water. By his death, arguably the darkest hour in human history, the gates of Heaven are thrust open, because by His wounds, we are all healed.

Christmas teaches us that the dark hours are pierced by the love of God. We learn that we are not to be afraid of death, but that death has already lost, that love has already conquered.

Advent has concluded. The darkness of waiting and waiting on our Savior is done. He is here. Now. In your home and mine.

May His light shine for you this Christmas and throughout your life.is  May he turn our darkness to light, just like he did 2,000 years ago.

Merry Christmas.

…and that’s why it’s a Gun’s Quote!