We still have a week officially in 2009, but it has always seemed to me that the year really "ends" on the day that darkness overwhelms the light--the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. That short day has come and gone, and now, slowly at first, the days will become longer. Each day from now until June the sun will rise a little earlier, and then set a little later.
It is fitting to think about light and dark as we approach Christmas, when Jesus, the light of the world, came to share our earthly existence. Even on that shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, it is important to recall those words in John:
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it.
Thanks be to God!
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Our daughter's birthday 12/22. I have always disliked the shortening of the days and take some solace in the fact that the days start lengthening at the end of the day around the 13th here on the central coast (of course they continue to shorten at the beginning of the day).
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