For the culmination of Advent, I’m going back to the beginning. To Isaiah, which to my mind has some of the most beautiful language in the entire Bible. People like their Psalms, but give me that old prophet any time.
Isaiah contributed 20 verses to Georg Friedrich Handel’s Messiah,
and I have to tell you that singing those words to that music is a
transformative experience.
I’m not giving you any of the blockbusters for today,
though. I’ve been thinking a lot about the prophesy that the coming of Christ
would bring about huge changes in the world we know—a leveling and a smoothing
as we are all equal under the Lord.
Sounds bizarre, I know, what with our government currently
going to great lengths to show us that we are a Christian nation, which
exercises supreme power by doing the exact opposite of what Jesus of Nazareth
preached, taught and lived.
But that’s what Isaiah 40:4-5 tells us. And that verse is
the entirety of today’s entry, “Ev’ry Valley”.
Here's the Cambridge Choir with tenor Allan Clayton performing it.
Peace out, everyone.
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