Opening Doors To Freedom and Light

Another powerful image comes to us today, a key, but not any key, the Key of David that has the power to open and shut, that can open the prison doors and allow prisoners who sit in darkness and the shadow of death to come forth into the light.  The scepter, a sign of royal power, guarantees that this key is king and ruler and that he alone leads those in bondage to freedom.  How appropriate to look upon this king, about to be born, in his ultimate role as liberator, as savior.  Jesus comes as a helpless infant, but is the one who wipes out darkness once and for all and gives us, no matter who we are or where we are in our journey, the hope and the light for which we long.  As Mary ran with haste to Elizabeth to share her joy and was met by the joyful leaping of John the Baptist in Elizabeth's womb, and heard the joyful greeting, "Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb", (Lk 1: 42) may we give ourselves over to this new-born king and share in his mission to bring light, life and joy to those who are still lost in darkness.
O Key of David and scepter of the house of Israel, who open and none can shut, who shut and none can open, com and lead to freedom the prisoner who sits in darkness and the shadow of death.
Bro. Rene