🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄

 

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We saw this bauble at the Brussels airport one year. And I thought it was a good picture for this year's greating:

☮ on 🌍

There is so much going on in this world right now, that this is the only message that is important right now.

I wish you all a peaceful Christmas.

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Did you know there is a song where you don't need to know all the lyrics and can still sing it? Try this:

Hark the Herald Angels sing,
Hark the Herald Angels sing,
Hark the Herald Angels sing,
Hark the Herald Angels sing,
Hark the Herald Angels sing,
Hark the Herald Angels sing,
Hark the Herald Angels sing,
Hark the Herald Angels sing.

But, if you do want to do it right, here are the whole lyrics:

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🎼Hark the Heard Angels sing,
"Glory to the newborn King;
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!"
Joyful, all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With th’angelic host proclaim,
"Christ is born in Bethlehem!"

Refrain:
Hark the Heard Angels sing,
"Glory to the newborn King!"

Christ, by highest Heav’n adored;
Christ the everlasting Lord:
Late in time, behold Him come,
Offspring of a virgin’s womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail th’incarnate Deity,
Pleased with us in flesh to dwell,
Jesus our Emmanuel.

Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
Ris’n with healing in His wings.
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.

Come, Desire of nations, come,
Fix in us Thy humble home;
Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed,
Bruise in us the serpent’s head.
Now display Thy saving pow’r,
Ruined nature now restore;
Now in mystic union join
Thine to ours, and ours to Thine.

Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface,
Stamp Thine image in its place:
Final Adam from above,
Reinstate us in Thy love.
Let us Thee, though lost, regain,
Thee, the Life, the inner man:
Oh, to all Thyself impart,
Formed in each believing heart.

Text: Charles Wesley, 1707–1788
Music: Felix Mendelssohn, 1809–1847

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