“Every child born is a revolution
Is a revolution with a song inside.
Some won’t hear it, oh some hear nothing else;
They’ll sing night and day just to keep that song alive.”
These lyrics are from a song entitled “Mighty Long Way” by my college friend Greg Greenway. (Click here to hear excerpt.) They popped into my head when I read today’s passage from Luke 1: 57-66, the story of the birth of John the Baptist. After the naming of John and the miraculous restoration of his father’s ability to speak, the neighbors said, “‘What then will this child become?’ For, indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.”
The birth of John, of course, preceded the birth of Jesus – two children undeniably born as “a revolution with a song inside”. Indeed, the hand of the Lord was with them both … and what they became!!
Another reading for today, Psalm 96, carries on the tuneful theme:
“O sing to the Lord a new song;
sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing to the Lord, bless his name;
tell of his salvation from day to day.”
Our two “revolutions” did exactly that. They heard nothing else and sang night and day just to keep that song of the Lord alive.
And it’s up to us to pick up the tune and keep on singing.
Night and day.
The readings for Friday of Advent IV are Psalms 93, 96, Isa. 33:17-22, Rev. 22:6-11, 18-20, and Luke 1:57-66.
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