I remember the sound of angels singing in our backyard years
ago. They must have been around three and five at the time and they were singing “This is the
feast of victory for our God. Alleluia!” That’s the only part they knew so they
just sang it over and over again. Maybe that’s the only part we need to know
when it comes right down to it. The Lamb who was slain is worthy and has won
the victory over death so that songs of rejoicing might spring forth from
children and angels alike. To that the living creatures say Amen which means
Let it be so. To live into let it be so is to invite the future into the
present so that we hear and sing the song in our everyday. Granted it is more
difficult when life is anything but playful. In those times the invitation is a
prayer and this is the feast is sung through clenched teeth. Which is why it is
the only thing we need to know. Despite all the difficulties of the day the
battle is done, the final victory won. One day the feast of victory will be for
all of us as children playing and singing this is the feast over and over again
and the sound of suffering and sorrow will be stilled. And so the memory of
angels singing in the backyard in the past enters the present of this morning
so that one is reminded of the future. Amen. Let it be so.
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