Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!
Posted on 12/18/2023 7:45:03 PM PST by freepersup
POWERFUL! TY! What a talented and fortunate family...
I LOVE that song. Thanks for posting it. Do you know these fine young people?
Merry Christmas 🎄
Merry Christmas Right_in_Virginia!
Hold the line!
Helo FRiend! Merry Christmas!
I missed your post on the first read. Sounds like a great plan- an electric blanket! I sleep warm... feet outside the covers.
Honor your holiday and Christmas traditions when and wherever you can.
I might go out and cut down/cut up, some firewood for a Christmas gift or two, to my brother and one of his good friends.
Have a Blessed Christmas, FRiend.
beautiful!
beautiful song
talented youngsters
A couple of my favorites......
Casting Crowns~~I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7670CXvPX0
Michael McLean~~Joseph (I Was Not His Father, He Was Mine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VhXgjrdMQ0
hi
Thank you so much...I’ll be back later to join. Going to run errands...shopping. Bless You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5mdybeyLVc
The Best Christmas Song I’ve Ever Heard. It Will Give You Chills.
Piano Guys
Joseph...LG...It’s beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon (Official Music Video) [HD]
Thank you for these links.
Will play for the grands, while we’re baking ❤️
Yes, that one is definately on my favorites list.....
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Love the songs of the season, so uplifting.
Happy baking with the grands!
Your Casting Crowns “I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day”..makes my eyes tear up! Beautiful...tks
Someone posted the story behind this song. I had never heard the history before.
I haven’t researched this but posting anyway.
***@PrinceChaloner
@PrinceChaloner
7 years ago
This song was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1863. On Christmas day, 1863, Longfellow—a 57-year-old widowed father of six children, the oldest of which had been nearly paralyzed as his country fought a war against itself—wrote a poem seeking to capture the dynamic and dissonance in his own heart and the world he observes around him. He heard the Christmas bells that December day and the singing of “peace on earth” (Luke 2:14), but he observed the world of injustice and violence that seemed to mock the truthfulness of this optimistic outlook. The theme of listening recurred throughout the poem, eventually leading to a settleness of confident hope even in the midst of bleak despair.
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Christmas Bells
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 –
1882
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
“There is no peace on earth,” I said;
“For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men.”
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