GLORIA!
HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS
IN HEAV’N BELLS ARE RINGING
VERILY THE SKY IS RIV’N WITH ANGELS SINGING
Dear
Friends,
I would like to wish you all a very JOYFUL CHRISTMAS when we celebrate the Birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ!
I
absolutely LOVE the hymn: ONCE IN
ROYAL DAVID’S CITY. It takes me back to my
childhood days, acting in our Nativity play. We had to do all the actions, and I
can still remember rocking the Infant Jesus. It was such a precious time. The words
are so profound: He came
down to earth from heaven. Jesus is the Word made flesh.
He came that we should have
life in abundance.
In John
10:10 Jesus tells us, “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” And He meant
that we may have it (life) “exceedingly, abundantly, beyond all we can ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20).
I often think of people who have given up
successful, high flying careers after having been completely changed by the power
of Christ. The experience is an internal one. They discover something more, and
although the world outside has not changed, and the problems still exist, they make
a certain discovery, and find an inner peace, which the world cannot explain. Have
you ever been or met someone who just radiates that inner peace and joy and you
just want to be around that person?
More and more people are seeking for
something beyond themselves. People are generally aware that there is a Power
greater than us. There are so many self-help books, life coaches, doctrines and
philosophy. The search is a real one to find our purpose and to make sense of our
existence.
In every person there is an inner longing.
There is a void that world cannot satisfy. At some point, we realise that the
world cannot bring us the inner joy, peace, authentic love that we sincerely desire.
God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, for “if anyone
is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old things have passed away and,
behold, new things have come” – 2 Corinthians 5:17
This Christmas season, we celebrate the birth
of Christ who calls His children back to Himself.
Psalm 16:11 says it so well
and we too, can welcome the Child King and say to Him:
You make known to me the path of life;
You will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
You will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Psalm 16:11
Have a HAPPY AND JOYOUS CHRISTMAS!
A BIG HUG
from
Olivia and Family
Now let us forget our problems and sing!
ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY
Once in royal David’s city,
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her Baby,
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ, her little Child.
He came down to earth from heaven,
Who is God and Lord of all,
And His shelter was a stable,
And His cradle was a stall:
With the poor, and mean, and lowly,
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.
For He is our childhood's pattern
Day by day, like us, He grew;
He was little, weak, and helpless,
Tears and smiles, like us He knew;
And He careth for our sadness,
And he shareth in our gladness.
And our eyes at last shall see Him,
Through His own redeeming love;
For that Child so dear and gentle,
Is our Lord in heaven above:
And He leads His children on,
To the place where He is gone.
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her Baby,
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ, her little Child.
He came down to earth from heaven,
Who is God and Lord of all,
And His shelter was a stable,
And His cradle was a stall:
With the poor, and mean, and lowly,
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.
For He is our childhood's pattern
Day by day, like us, He grew;
He was little, weak, and helpless,
Tears and smiles, like us He knew;
And He careth for our sadness,
And he shareth in our gladness.
And our eyes at last shall see Him,
Through His own redeeming love;
For that Child so dear and gentle,
Is our Lord in heaven above:
And He leads His children on,
To the place where He is gone.
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