o holy night

i have always loved the christmas song/hymn 'o holy night', particularly the last lines of the first stanza:
a thrill of hope
a weary world rejoices
where yonder breaks
a new and glorious morn

but as i heard it sung in several different services this year, i was struck by the last verse, and how much the last verse made me think of all the liberation and feminist and womanist theology i've been exposed to over the last few years.
see:
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...

amen, amen. (let it be so)


may you feel a thrill of hope this christmas, in the midst of your weariness
and may you experience a liberation from oppression, whatever form that takes in your life.
this, i wish, for you & for me,
becca