It Could Be Worse. You Could Be Britney's Kids
Hi! Did you recover from 2007? Gear up for the next one. It will be okay, even if Hillary gets in. Our God (not theirs) is on the throne. Check out jihadwatch.com if you're bored. Not that it has anything to do with Hillary. That would be found in "The Late Great Planet Earth". Check out HalLindsey.com
Anyway, on a lighter bricklaying note one thing assisting me in facing off with '08 (alongside the new smoked bacon chocolate bar from www.vosgeschocolate.com, kind patient sweet God-fearing friends, "Naked" superfood green drink, mummy, Ken Branagh remaining unemployed indefinately and salt pork made by my sister-in-law, I have rediscovered a pretty carol by Gus 'Planet Guy' Holst which has been tapping my heart. And why not. Everyone is in a state of flux. People are troubled. I am troubled. Friends have fallen off buildings and gotten pregnant. Daisy died. My brother still insists on eating cake and donuts after contracting diabetes and landing in the hospital. The earth spins on uncontrollably. It's just all very stressful. So hope you enjoy the meessage below. I am in no mood to cheer you up. It's entirely for me, so read and get back out there and live your life. It could be worse. You could be Britney Spears' lawyer.
Selah the following first.
Psalm 42:11 - Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God
Psalm 31:24 - Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 71:5 - For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.
1 Peter 1:21 - Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
1 Peter 3:13 - Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
1 John 3:3 - Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.
Proverbs 14:32 - When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge
Colossians 1:5 - The faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel.
"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a Christmas carol.
Although written by Christina Rossetti before 1872, it was published posthumously in Rossetti's Poetic Works in 1904 and appeared in The English Hymnal in 1906.
According to the website CyberHymnal, Rossetti wrote these words in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem[1].
In verse one, Rossetti describes the physical characteristics of the Incarnation.
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen,
Snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter,
Long ago.
In verse two, Rossetti contrasts Christ's first and second coming.
Our God, heaven cannot hold him,
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When he comes to reign;
In the bleak midwinter
A stable place sufficed
The Lord God incarnate,
Jesus Christ.
The third verse dwells on Christ's birth and describes the simple surroundings, in a humble stable and watched by beasts of burden.
Enough for him, whom Cherubim
Worship night and day
A breast full of milk
And a manger full of hay.
Enough for him, whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
which adore.
Rossetti achieves another contrast in the fourth verse, this time between the incorporeal angels attendant at Christ's birth with Mary's ability to render Jesus physical affection. This verse is omitted in the Harold Darke setting.
Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But his mother only,
In her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
The final verse may be the most well known and loved.
What can I give him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,
Yet what I can I give Him —
Give my heart.
The text of this Christmas poem has been set to music many times, the two most famous settings being composed by Gustav Holst and Harold Edwin Darke in the early 20th century. There is another setting—less well known—from the same era, by Thomas B. Strong. Eric Thiman wrote a setting for solo voice and piano. More recently Bob Chilcott, at one time a member of The King's Singers, wrote a choral setting entitled "Mid-winter". Another recent setting is that by a Canadian, Robert C L Watson. The Holst version has been recorded by a number of popular recording artists, including Bert Jansch, Julie Andrews in 1982, Allison Crowe in 2004, Moya Brennan in 2005 and Sarah McLachlan in 2006, as well as by many choirs including the Robert Shaw Chorale and the choir of St. John's College, Cambridge. The Darke version, with its beautiful and delicate organ accompaniment, has also gained popularity among choirs in recent years, after the King's College Choir included it on its radio broadcasts of the Nine Lessons and Carols. (Incidentally, Darke served as conductor of the choir during World War II.)
Anyway, on a lighter bricklaying note one thing assisting me in facing off with '08 (alongside the new smoked bacon chocolate bar from www.vosgeschocolate.com, kind patient sweet God-fearing friends, "Naked" superfood green drink, mummy, Ken Branagh remaining unemployed indefinately and salt pork made by my sister-in-law, I have rediscovered a pretty carol by Gus 'Planet Guy' Holst which has been tapping my heart. And why not. Everyone is in a state of flux. People are troubled. I am troubled. Friends have fallen off buildings and gotten pregnant. Daisy died. My brother still insists on eating cake and donuts after contracting diabetes and landing in the hospital. The earth spins on uncontrollably. It's just all very stressful. So hope you enjoy the meessage below. I am in no mood to cheer you up. It's entirely for me, so read and get back out there and live your life. It could be worse. You could be Britney Spears' lawyer.
Selah the following first.
Psalm 42:11 - Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God
Psalm 31:24 - Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 71:5 - For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.
1 Peter 1:21 - Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
1 Peter 3:13 - Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
1 John 3:3 - Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.
Proverbs 14:32 - When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge
Colossians 1:5 - The faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel.
"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a Christmas carol.
Although written by Christina Rossetti before 1872, it was published posthumously in Rossetti's Poetic Works in 1904 and appeared in The English Hymnal in 1906.
According to the website CyberHymnal, Rossetti wrote these words in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem[1].
In verse one, Rossetti describes the physical characteristics of the Incarnation.
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen,
Snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter,
Long ago.
In verse two, Rossetti contrasts Christ's first and second coming.
Our God, heaven cannot hold him,
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When he comes to reign;
In the bleak midwinter
A stable place sufficed
The Lord God incarnate,
Jesus Christ.
The third verse dwells on Christ's birth and describes the simple surroundings, in a humble stable and watched by beasts of burden.
Enough for him, whom Cherubim
Worship night and day
A breast full of milk
And a manger full of hay.
Enough for him, whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
which adore.
Rossetti achieves another contrast in the fourth verse, this time between the incorporeal angels attendant at Christ's birth with Mary's ability to render Jesus physical affection. This verse is omitted in the Harold Darke setting.
Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But his mother only,
In her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
The final verse may be the most well known and loved.
What can I give him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,
Yet what I can I give Him —
Give my heart.
The text of this Christmas poem has been set to music many times, the two most famous settings being composed by Gustav Holst and Harold Edwin Darke in the early 20th century. There is another setting—less well known—from the same era, by Thomas B. Strong. Eric Thiman wrote a setting for solo voice and piano. More recently Bob Chilcott, at one time a member of The King's Singers, wrote a choral setting entitled "Mid-winter". Another recent setting is that by a Canadian, Robert C L Watson. The Holst version has been recorded by a number of popular recording artists, including Bert Jansch, Julie Andrews in 1982, Allison Crowe in 2004, Moya Brennan in 2005 and Sarah McLachlan in 2006, as well as by many choirs including the Robert Shaw Chorale and the choir of St. John's College, Cambridge. The Darke version, with its beautiful and delicate organ accompaniment, has also gained popularity among choirs in recent years, after the King's College Choir included it on its radio broadcasts of the Nine Lessons and Carols. (Incidentally, Darke served as conductor of the choir during World War II.)
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