Each year we in the church are involved in a great drama. Although the script is ancient, thousands of years old, its message is as new as today and as hopeful as tomorrow. It has been played out on countless stages throughout the world, and the story is so incredible that in spite of its constant retelling, it never grows stale, is never irrelevant. It is always fresh, always worth hearing and it always brings healing and strength.

Act I, Scene 1 of this churchwide drama began with the season of Advent as we prepared for our Lord's coming. The glorious climax of the first Scene was Christmas, the enchanting birth of the Christ-child. The second Scene of Act 1 is called "the season of Epiphany." It opened with the visitation of the wisemen and every event thereafter proceeded to reveal Jesu…