Preached by Rev. Erik Kindem.
Scripture: 1 Samuel 3:1-18
Summary
Our invitation throughout this Advent season is to stay alert to ways of imagining darkness and blackness NOT as attributes to be shunned, but rather attributes to be hallowed. Today we meet young Samuel, called in the dark to serve God. It HAD to come AT NIGHT—this encounter with the DIVINE—because it’s AT NIGHT that the distractions which occupy our days are laid aside and the EGO at last relinquishes the driver’s seat while the UNCONSCIOUS mind takes the wheel.
This is the rich world that Swiss psychiatrist CARL JUNG discovered a century ago. A world full of symbols packed with meaning, delivered to us in the language of dreams.