Advent 1B
Have you ever seen the comedy movie Chicken Little? The sky is falling! If you haven't seen the movie, what happens is that Chicken Little is sitting under a tree when a piece of sky falls and hits him on the head. He starts panicking. He runs to the town bell tower and starts ringing the emergency bell. And everyone else starts panicking. Without knowing why. So much so, people are running around, running into things, screaming and carrying on, that the town water tower falls apart and the huge round part at the top, full of water, falls down and rolls around town destroying things. Chicken Little's panic does actually cause a real emergency. All because he believes the sky is falling. The sky is falling! Jesus says it, so it must be true. Quite literally, Jesus says the stars are falling out of the sky. Remember the three kinds of apocalypse? The world ending because of natural disaster the wor...