Hello dear readers … have you missed me? I have been beset with technical difficulties and being the luddite that I am I was paralyzed to act. Well, not completely paralyzed. I made several attempts but I seemed to keep coming to dead ends. Today I finally screwed up my fortitude, spent an extended period of time on line and sorted out the problem. But now, as the saying goes … “I’m BACK”!!!
Today is Epiphany – a day of light, a day of discovery, a day of insight, a day of wisdom.
In the United States, today has been a day of darkness, a day of turmoil, a day of violence, a day of terror. I am at a loss to know how to understand the mentality that would result in the terrorism that happened in their Capital Building. But, I do remember that the day of Epiphany marks the day the magi discovered Jesus and then broke their deal with Herod which triggered violence fed by his insecurity. Herod was afraid of someone taking his power and so he killed baby boys and wreaked havoc across the land. Why – afraid of loss of control, afraid of losing popularity, a weak man cloistered in his palace. Can you hear the echoes to the halls of power in the United States?
Today is a sad day of Epiphany.
Yes, today has been tragic and bewildering, but it is also cathartic, as both sides of the political divide are pointing to one cause. He has lost his Twitter account and thereby his voice. Whitehouse insiders are saying he has lost his mind. Many are weighing if two weeks is too long a period to wait for the nation’s night mare to be over and the implementation of the 25th amendment is openly being discussed.
Truth will prevail, and hope springs eternal. Epiphany marks a new direction, another road.
For me, today was always a day of positivity. The three Wise men found the babe and presented to him 3 gifts of major significance: gold, frankinsense, myrrh. This presentation was always a hopeful event to me, and I hope this feeling seeps below the 49th parallel to calm the troubled seas raging so violently there.