Ruby, I think about the times 2 thousand years past of the dark turmoil of an insignificant corner of the Roman Empire ruled by a the tyrant Herod who usurped his own father's rule by poisoning him and stacked up murdered Sadducees like cordwood during his rule. He executed the magi who learned of a new child dubbed "King of the Jews", then ordered all male children under 2 years old killed out of fear of his own throne. The Massacre of the Innocents.
How is it that a child hailed of a minority in a global empire who was a seeming bastard of foreign and even wicked blood, his mother's betrothed Joseph not' even he child's father, how could this child be the Wonderful. The Counsellor. The Mighty God. The Everlasting Life!
The Magi knew to follow that strange light in the sky in such dark times to find the One, the Hope, the Redeemer. That strange alignment of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn was their Guiding Light! The Star of Bethlehem. And on December 21 of this year I pray you and I can find hope in our own Guiding Light. Jupiter and Saturn align closer to earth than a long long time before and I pray it promises Hope and Renewal, a drying out, and a stable land.