Monday, December 2, 2002
Monday, December 2, 2002
The night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness
and put on the armor of light;
Caro notes that when he was interviewing in the Hill
Country, no matter what he was talking to people about, he found
that one phrase was repeated over and over again concerning
Johnson. The phrase was, "He brought the lights. No matter what
Lyndon was like, we loved him because he brought the lights."
They were talking about the fact that when Johnson became
congressman from the Hill Country in 1937, at the age of
twenty-eight, there was no electricity there. And by 1948, when
he was elected to the Senate, most of the district had
electricity. "He brought the lights."
When the writers of our Bible sought to express the
inexpressible--to communicate to our finite minds what the coming
of the Christ child meant to humankind, they compared it to light
coming into a world of darkness. John expressed it best: "The
light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome
it."
(Romans 13.12
NRSV)
Robert Caro wrote a book on that very complex former
President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Some of us
may remember Johnson for his War on Poverty. Others of us may
remember him for his conduct of the Vietnam War. Younger members
of our congregation may simply remember him as the man who became
president when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. Caro
found, however, that the people in the Hill Country of Texas
where Johnson first began his career as a congressman remember
him for something else.
Dear Jesus, bring your light into my life today and throughout this great season. Amen.
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