The word 'epiphany' is overworked, a point I will be making on Sunday when we mark the arrival of the magi to visit the young Jesus.  The significance of the festival - the Light to the Gentiles/Nations, the 'en-light-enment' of those deemed other is more important than the name we use.  I am sure the purists will tell me that the festival must be done today and not 'transferred' to Sunday, but frankly I'm not too worried. 

There are lots of hymns/songs I COULD have chosen other than those I did, one of which would be this one:

Christ for the world we sing!
the world to Christ we bring,
with loving zeal;
the poor, and them that mourn,
the faint and overborne,
sin-sick and sorrow worn,
for Christ to heal.

Christ for the world we sing!
The world to Christ we bring
with fervent prayer;
the wayward and the lost,
by restless passions tossed,
redeemed at countless cost
from dark despair.

Christ for the world we sing!
The world to Christ we bring
with one accord;
with us the work to share,
with us reproach to dare,
with us the cross to bear,
for Christ our Lord.

Christ for the world we sing!
The world to Christ we bring
with joyful song;
the new-born souls, whose days,
reclaimed from error's ways,
inspired with hope and praise,
to Christ belong.

Samuel Wolcott (1813-1886)

Whether you are taking down your decorations because it's twelfth night, marking Epiphany in an act of worship, or even having Christmas Day (Eastern churches), I hope you have a good day, and that new light, new understnading just might dawn on your horizon.