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"can't anybody tell me what christmas means?!"

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{ isreal. by rachel.} "In the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!" When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." They went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, an...

building a sorrowful lovliness

When the morning breaks When the evening fails I will write Your word upon my heart, oh Lord When the fires burn When the rain comes down I can feel Your grace flow through me Without a sound Nothing is certain, but I'm certain of You Pull back this curtain, let Your light in this room And all that's true, I find inYou The more I drink of Your word The more I thirst for You When the world dissolves And the sun just flickers out I will write Your word upon my heart, oh Lord When the stars crash down At the end of the age I can feel Your touch As You wipe my tears away Building a sorrowful loveliness Out of the darkness Out of this furnace I find You [~telecast} Excepting the second verse (last I checked the sun was still shining behind the clouds) this song describes what God is doing in me right now. Better than I could. HE is constant, faithful, sustaining. I'm learning to love being sustained by Him. Not as if there is ever a time when I'm not sustained by Him-far fro...
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{ photocredit: rachel claerbout, via emial from isreal } "Remember these things, O Jacob, and Isreal...I formed you, you are my servant; O Isreal you will not be forgotten by me. I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! FOr the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Isreal." Is. 44:21-23