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The Mystery of the Magi - Daniel Kolenda
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Afew days before Christmas, I was walking through the mall. The hustle and bustle of last minute shoppers filled the air like bees buzzing around their hive. I had joined the swarm of consumers on the hunt for the final few gifts to complete my shopping list, when suddenly I heard something: a familiar melody floating through the air carrying the most pristine doctrine. The song broadcasted a message of ultimate truth at odds with the mall’s busy consumerism. For most people, the message went completely unnoticed. It was simply more noise droning in the background. But for me, it cut through the clamor, arrested my attention and struck me in an unexpected way.
Recently, there had been yet another shooting in which a young African-American man was killed by a police officer. Racial tension was high, debates raged and riots broke out across the country. The incident was just the latest in a series of ongoing conflicts in our nation, but really it was just one recent example of a scandal raging since the Garden of Eden.
What can be done about the problems in our world: fear, hatred, racism, violence, pain, suffering, death and evil? There seems to be no solution. Our amazing advances in technology, medicine, philosophy and science have cured many symptoms, but they have not touched the underlying disease. The protests and riots I had seen on the news earlier that day seemed like overflowing frustrations toward a problem no one knows how to solve.
And then there it was—the answer to the problem playing over a sound system in a crowded shopping mall. It rang out like an anthem in the last place you would expect. I stood still in the middle of the aisle, between the radio-controlled cars and Barbie dolls, and listened. I wondered why no one else was getting it. Tears welled up in my eyes as I was awed by the power of the words:
"Truly He taught us to love one another,
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother
And in His name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord, oh,
Praise His name forever
His power and glory ever more proclaim!
His power and glory ever more proclaim!"
(O Holy Night
Adolphe Adam, 1847)
Given the level of darkness descending on our world, one might think that any redemptive Christmas message would have been lost long ago: silenced by secular culture, emasculated by political correctness, ridiculed by humanism and drowned out by materialism (especially this time of year). Yet there it was, the Gospel, the remedy for the human condition, disguised as a harmless