Christmas Carols Rock!

I'm just soaking up the words to these oldies like a Bounty quicker picker upper soaks up a spill! (bad analogy Mrs. Jones!) Christmas is fast approaching and Mike and I have been delighting in the true Word and story of Jesus. We looked at some of the prophesies of Jesus' birth at our youth service on Sunday (Mike and I have been studying them together too!) and it is just phenomenal that so many Old Testament passages point to Jesus coming from the line of Eve and David, being born in Bethlehem, and being born of a virgin mother! And just the concept that Jesus' mother HAD TO be a virgin to break the sinful line of Adam! And how God chooses the humble to raise up and the simple and small to make great! We are really seeking to give him the glory this Christmas and to share that with others! I am started to wonder if my blogs are more like sermons than journal entries...I hope that's not a bad thing! I'm just sharing what's on my mind and heart really.

I hope these words soak up in your soul as they did mine!!

"O Little Town of Bethlehem"

"How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given.
So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heaven.

No ear may hear his coming, but in this world of sin.

Where meek souls will receive him still, the dear Christ enters in."

"Hark the Herald Angels sing"

"Peace on earth and mercy mild. God and sinners reconciled...

Pleased as man with man to dwell. Jesus, our Emmanuel...

Mild He lays His glory by. Born that man no more may die.

Born to raise the sons of earth. Born to give them second birth.

Hark! The herald angels sing: 'Glory to the newborn King!'"

"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"

"O ye beneath life's crushing load, Whose forms are bending low.

Who toil along the climbing way, With painful steps and slow;

Look now, for glad and golden hours. Come swiftly on the wing;

Oh rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels sing.

For lo! the days are hastening on, By prophets seen of old.

When with the ever-circling years, Shall come the time foretold.

When the new heaven and earth shall own, The Prince of Peace, their King,

And the whole world send back the song, Which now the angels sing."