Joy to the earth! The savior reigns; let all their songs
employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat
the sounding joy.
Isaac Watts, 1719
How very interesting that this beloved carol emphasizes
nature’s share in the joy surrounding Christ’s birth! Perhaps the message of
joy and hope for the world is just too big to entrust entirely to angels, or to
shepherds. The wonders of nature cannot help but bear witness with us to a liberating
love big enough to encompass every part of our world. In a world where the
Savior reigns, all of us --- rocks, floods, plains, plainsdwellers --- are
freed from the curse that binds us to smallness and failure.
Joy to the world…the whole wide world!
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