âThe light shines in the darkness,â wrote St. John nearly two millennia ago, âand the darkness has not understood it.â
How strange that tomorrow night, the night of the Northern Hemisphereâs winter solstice, offers a reminder of what Christians regard as the cosmic signal that the worldâs long-awaited Messiah had come.
God and west central Nebraska skies willing, weâll see the closest conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn since 1226 in the southwest sky just after sunset Monday.
Theyâll be so close (to our eyes, that is) that theyâll shine as one, providing a reasonable facsimile of the âStar of Bethlehemâ said to have guided the three Magi (Wise Men) from present-day Iran to that rude stable in King Davidâs native town.