I thought a beautiful song might get us through this next three days of snow.
I thought a beautiful song might get us through this next three days of snow.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Playlist of the Week.”
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SUNDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
FRIDAY
TODAY
I did some listening in my afternoon devotions today. This song came across my desk and it really touched my heart.
With Christmas just a week away I am in full-blown concert season. My first Christmas worship session was last week at our annual Special Touch REACH New England Christmas Party. It was a great day enjoyed by about 50 disabled individuals and their caregivers. What a privilege to serve these folks!
Today I was able to bring communion and Christmas music out to the Gardner Visiting Nurses Dayhab program. This is one of three off-campus services our church has the good fortune to be involved in.
Tomorrow night we are sending out four caroling teams across the country-side to sing songs of the season. It’s just not Christmas without the music!
“The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.”
― Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline
I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.
“Christmases are never the same. They change from year to year, and they are never really perfect, no matter how hard we try to force them to be so. What is perfect is the miracle in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago and the love of God that continues to burst through the chaos of human imperfection; Christmas is finding the Christ Child radiant beneath the daily grime of life.”
― Julie K. Hogan
I was first introduced to the Piano Guys through this blogging community almost three years ago. Tonight I am attending their Christmas Concert at the Wang Center in Boston!
We cannot conceive how the Divine Spirit dwelled within the created and human spirit of Jesus…. What we can understand…is that our own…existence is…but a faint image of the Divine Incarnation itself – the same theme in a very minor key.
~ C.S. Lewis, Miracles, p147