What is after the silent night?

MY Sunday Scripture 2010.12.26


The Text: Matthew 2:13-15.19-23.

When they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him." Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, "Out of Egypt I called my son." When Herod had died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead." He rose, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go back there. And because he had been warned in a dream, he departed for the region of Galilee. He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, "He shall be called a Nazorean."

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My Reading Notes:

In my memory as a child, the song "Silent Night" was always a comfort for me. I would remember the time when I heard it, somewhere near my old primary school, some children singing, the night was so lovely. That moment of (k)uietness is so important that you will expect the life in the coming years will be always like that.

What made you cherish that particular moment was the things coming afterwards. Endless fighting, endless chase. (K)uietness is but a lovely dream. However, hoping that the dream would come true one day, one will keep on going. You search and search. and search.