Our Gigantic Secret
G.K. Chesterton called it the gigantic secret and C.S. Lewis says he was surprised by it and that his search for it finally led him to Christ. It is the content of the good news the angel proclaimed to the shepherds who had been keeping watch over their flocks by night. It is joy.
I’ve been thinking about joy. The news flashes that will crawl across the bottom of our TV screens tonight and be splashed, hysterically, on the front page of tomorrow morning’s Beaver County Times will have to do with steroids, mud-slinging in Iowa and Britney Spears’ legal problems. Not so the news alert brought by the army of heaven’s angels that night outside Bethlehem.