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Sunday, December 20: What does the word “rejoice” mean to you?
The fourth Sunday of Advent -- all the candles are lit and the anticipation is very high. We read the stories, we tell them to our children. Saturnalia and Yuletide are in full swing, Hanukkah just finished, and the Winter Solstice is upon us. The season is full of smells and lights and music and we hear the word "rejoice" quite often, usually in a religious context.
And that is how I have come to think of it, as a symptom of faith and belief. Me myself, I don't think I have ever "rejoiced". I have been very happy, elated even. I have been relieved, I have celebrated, I have been thankful, I have been full of high spirits and even danced in the street with exuberance -- but I would've never called it "rejoicing"
Faith is a strange thing. I know pagans with very strong and firm beliefs. I have friends with solid Christian faith; I have friends who refuse to identify themselves as Christian anymore. It is something that I struggle with and wish that I had more of, it is something that I tried to instill in my children. It is something that I think of a lot around Christmas and Easter. Do other faiths speak of rejoicing? Do the Shiks and Taoists and Muslims rejoice as part of their liturgy?
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