Rev. Geoffrey St. Hoare
December 24, 2008
In a little while we will sing of the hopes and fears of all the years
meeting in the child whose birth we mark this night. Our hope is for a life
freed from fear and our fear is the progenitor of violence and
victimization. Gratitude is both the fruit of real hope and the antidote to
fear and we see the seeds of that truth in the Christmas story, the glad
tidings of great joy that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us --all of
us-- full of grace and full of truth, the first gift of God's self giving
love which brings universes into being and opens to us the way of abundant
and everlasting life.