We Three Kings
II Christmas
January 2, 2011
There was a lunar eclipse a couple of weeks ago. We couldn’t see it because the skies over Madison were overcast, but it generated considerable buzz in the streets and certainly on the Internet. Such celestial phenomena are little more than curiosities to us. To people in the ancient world, they were much more than that. It wasn’t just the fear many people had during an eclipse of the sun that the sun might be going dark forever. Ancients, and not so Ancients saw a close connection between their own lives and the movements of the planets and stars. Most believed that in some way, the movements of the planets shaped the fates of humans. Hence the zodiac and horoscopes. That’s still with us, of course. When I logged on to yahoo yesterday, the lead story was “What’s in store for you in 2011? Find out what the stars have planned for your career and your romantic relationships.”
Preaching Grace on the Square 