I cannot explain it, but about this date every year, yes, on or about December 23rd, I get a fresh dose of childlike celebration from an undeniable Pre-Christmas anticipation that spreads like a strange and wonderful warmth throughout the depths of my soul. It's as if my heart is a welcoming manger and the Bouncing Baby Boy of Heaven, Jesus the Baby King, is laughing out loud because of the Life and Hope He knows He has brought to me from Heaven when He was delivered on Christmas Day.
Lord, my heart is Bethlehem. Thanks for being born again within my eternal soul. Amen.
O Holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us, we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born to us today
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell
O come to us, abide with us
Our Lord Emmanuel!
I posted this Youtube once already this month. Hear it again.
Sarah McLachlan's "O Little Town of Bethlehem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyPMDD8fGeA
Grateful
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We look backwards at Christmas to the birth of this child who would become Jesus the Christ. But this is no mere birthday commemoration for a great man.We celebrate this particular birth so lavishly because it was no mere birth of a great religious thinker.The proposition of Christianity is that Christmas celebrates the "birth" of God himself.
God, of course, is eternal and could never be "born" in the human sense of the word. He somehow joined himself with human cells, was born a helpless baby and lived among us in the life of the man from Nazareth, Yeshua — Jesus
Charles Lehardy
Let's celebrate lavishly!
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