Monday's thoughts

"Gloria's God"
Sunday the adult choir will sing Rutter's Gloria. It takes 17 minutes and that gives me about 12 minutes to share a message with you for the third Sunday of Advent.

The third Sunday the Advent Candle that we light is pink and the theme is joy. What better way to express our joy than with an expression that includes "glory to God"!

For now, what I'm thinking I want to do with my time is to take a look at each of the sections in the adult choir and to consider what they bring and which character in the Christmas story they each represent. As a choir requires all the voices to bring the harmony, so, with the Christmas story, it takes all the characters to get the truth conveyed.

The Christmas story is one that is filled with villains and heroes and there is question as to which is which. For example, is the Inn Keeper a hero or a villain? He did provide a place for Mary and Joseph but it was in the back of the Inn in the stable. Was Herod a villain? Were the Magi, in their strangeness, aware of the importance of the birth of the Christ Child?

Did Mary and Joseph realize what was happening to them and through them.

Where are we in the Christmas story? What would our script say? Would we play the part of the angels or the shepherds?

Each of us will want to find our place in the drama. Are we sopranos, altos, bass, tenors?

Where do we find ourselves?

Are we in the play at all?

If not, it's not too late?

Do you have thoughts on this subject? If so write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the box below.

I look forward to hearing from you.


Charles