'Comfort, comfort now my people; tell of peace!' so says our God.
'Comfort those who sit in darkness mourning under sorrow's load.
To my people now proclaim that my pardon waits for them!
Tell them that their sins I cover, and their warfare now is over.'
---Johannes Olearius
How long have you been struggling? For the right? Against the wrong? On the side of the little guy? How tired have you gotten in the struggle against the dark? Sometimes that struggle is against forces out there, and sometimes the dark creeps a lot closer to home. In this paraphrase of Isaiah 40, we hear the voice of the prophet, whispering a promise --- if we hold on, just a little longer, there is comfort coming, there is pardon, there is relief in your mourning.
Hold on, friends. Comfort is coming.
...so here we stand, whoever we are,
bathed in the light of a star...
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