The Journey to an Epiphany – January 6, 2024

January 6, 2024

Epiphany

The Journey to an Epiphany

We have reached the day celebrated as The Epiphany.  We experienced an epiphany together.  It does not matter whether it was a significant event, or a minor one.  We had the experience together, and it has meant so much to me.  I have said it before, yet I say it again.  Taking this journey with you has enriched this season greatly, for me, and I hope it has done the same for you.  I intend to pay more attention to dreams.  It is also my intention to not explain away visions, and visitations, angels, and messages.  From today the intention is to live by the miraculous intervention of all that is holy, and from God.  This is an exciting way to move into a new year, filled with wonder and awe, ready to rise up and go, no matter where the still, small voice from within leads.  Each of us is carrying The Wisdom of God within us.  So, why not use it?  It is ours to use, ignore, or abuse.  We have the choice, each one of us.  Looking forward to tomorrow, and what it shall bring, the candles on the Advent wreath, have been lit since the first day of Advent, 2023.  Now, for the last time, this season of Epiphany, they are extinguished.  Yet the light, which burned brightly will not go out, for it lives within each one of us.  We are the light of the world.

          On this Epiphany, the reading I have chosen is from Matthew 2:15. And Matthew 2:19-23

The Reading

January 6, 2024

“where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” Matthew 2:15

“After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt ²⁰ and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”

²¹ So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. ²² But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, ²³ and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.” Matthew 2:19-23.