Contact with the holy

Sunday January 2nd, Jeremiah 31: This is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, ‘LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’ 8 See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return. When we come into contact with the Holy, singing for joy, dancing for joy, grinning from ear to ear seem to be our only choices. When we come into contact with the Holy, even the blind and lame will be dancing in the streets. This is about the exiles returning to Jerusalem, but it is also a vision of you and I, exiles in the land of “less than” returning to the presence of the Lord, to a land of creation called good. When we return to the Lord from any wayward journey we may happen to take if life, it is as if someone turned on the light and turned up the music. You might try to sit this one out, but you won’t be able to.