Watching this beautiful video, it struck me how much Christianity is tied up in honoring the potential of the child. The child is every thing. The cure for cancer will come from the child, alive now or unborn. And so on.
The secular leftists who plague us now are obsessed with the burden of the child. The child is a mouth to feed. The child is a challenge to the single mother. Abortion becomes the shortcut. So paradoxical that in a culture devoted to the welfare state feeding small children is a such a challenge.
In agricultural cultures, the child has for millenia been another hand to work the field. Now that our agriculture is so mechanized, that rationale has abandoned us. Still, without the child we cease to exist. We must solve this simple riddle or perish.
“Still, without the child we cease to exist. We must solve this simple riddle or perish.”
Even the adult performers in that beautiful video are expressing their joyous, innocent, and true identities as children of God.
Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
“Even the adult performers in that beautiful video are expressing their joyous, innocent, and true identities as children of God.” Yes, they certainly are.
We can be child-like, no matter what our age. We can be born again. We can think the good and pure thoughts that come from God. We can be brave and hopeful, because we know that all is in the hands of the Lord.
A beautiful aside to the most vile people in our country just signing a ‘bill’ to send more of our money to everyone in the world except our citizens that pay for it!
I believe in you People far more than anyone in the world. God bless you and have a wonderful Christmas!! It is true… Live your best life!
Ausonius
December 24, 2020 7:09 am
Cesar Franck’s music for Psalm 150 (note how the music starts in darkness, so to speak, and ends up in bright triumph):
linda k
December 24, 2020 7:21 am
Thank you for that , Menagerie.
SpankyNotAlfalfa
December 24, 2020 7:29 am
Another “Gloria” version by Michael W Smith…our church used to do a full choir, orchestra version of this, which was quite inspiring! Merry Christmas to all. God’s Blessings to you and all the world!
Keystonekon
December 24, 2020 7:31 am
Just lovely! A most blessed Christmas to all.
Let us have Peace in our day through the Prince of Peace, the Lord of lords, forever!
Lovely! ‘…Adonai upholds the righteous. Adonai knows what the wholehearted suffer, but their inheritance lasts forever…’ from Ps 37
PJ Patriot
December 24, 2020 8:30 am
Thanks Menagerie, for lifting our spirits with praise to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
DJ Snyder
December 24, 2020 8:35 am
Always like this song! 😀
gymcy81
December 24, 2020 8:42 am
Thank you
That song and video is a Marvelous integrated representation of positive teamwork with a selfless purpose, as We give thanks to HIM.
It was not easy.
Finding the best-version-of-themselves, to help others.
But, they made it happen, together … with Joy with others
Seeing what God’s children – of all walks of life – did together
to send a heavenly message of appreciation and love to HIM – and us – simultaneously.
With his help, it is a wonderful creation…paying it forward … ( the video is being forwarded, for others to forward to others, a positive ripple affect.)
“Seeing what God’s children – of all walks of life – did together ….” I posted a similar thought, that I wouldn’t have, if I’d seen your thoughtful post first.
mb
December 24, 2020 8:50 am
When the epitaph of the human race is written, its crowning achievement will be music.
Even God sings over us.
Zephaniah 3:17; The Lord your God is in your midst, a Mighty One, who will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will renew you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.
Destashjan
December 24, 2020 8:50 am
I watch and share this glorious video every year. And I never fail to weep.
With joy. With thanksgiving to our Father, who blessed us with the greatest Gift, His Son.
thank you for sharing, Menagerie. Merry Christmas!
Barb
December 24, 2020 8:55 am
Glory to God for His Son Christ Jesus!
erm9164
December 24, 2020 8:59 am
Goosebumps. Every time.
Deb
December 24, 2020 9:07 am
Merry Christmas Treepers.
God was born as a tiny little baby. That’s how much he loves us.
God bless you and God bless PDJT!
Bubby
December 24, 2020 9:16 am
littleflower481
December 24, 2020 9:48 am
Thank you Menagerie, this really felt good..brightened up my morning. Now I will listen to the other music posted here. Merry Christmas.
Gunner
December 24, 2020 9:49 am
AMEN! Thank you Lord!
Ken Burns
December 24, 2020 9:49 am
Thank You………..God Bless
Phillip Briles
December 24, 2020 10:22 am
I watched, with tears in my eyes, … and hope in my heart.
Merry Christmas! to one and all.
Gracias!
noquarterfortraitors
December 24, 2020 10:23 am
Again thank you menagerie. You make Christmas a time to enjoy with all of the wonderful thing you post to Unite people. Merry Christmas to you, sundance, Conner and all the rest of your family and Merry Christmas to you My family here at The Conservative Treehouse, may Jesus find you in Every season now and in the coming New Year. To my knowledge I know none of you personally, but regardless of that I love each and every one of you, even the trolls and Communists that visit just to cause trouble, I love you and So Does GOD, Merry Christmas.
Eagle Driver
December 24, 2020 10:24 am
Merry Christmas Everyone in the Treehouse and God Bless…
The Space Museum in 2013 the US Air Force Band:
Pardon me while I dry my eyes…how beautiful…the joy in the singers faces…and the participants of this beautiful Nativity rendition. It brings me back in time, to 1987 where my 5 week old baby boy was privileged to play the role of “the Babe in the manger”….right now, am overwhelmed with joy and memories….and very wet eyes….God Bless each and every one of you! Merry and joyous Christmas!
University of Texas 1979…Mechanical Engineering!!!!
Totally Domestic
December 24, 2020 10:49 am
Every child needs a grandmother like you Menagerie!
No matter what happens, they can NEVER take Jesus out of our hearts!
TreeClimber
December 24, 2020 10:59 am
This song holds place of honor at the very end of my Christmas playlist, and gets listened to multiple times throughout the last three months of the year.
Armchair Quarterback
December 24, 2020 11:07 am
Simply beautiful ❤️
GrandpaM
December 24, 2020 11:24 am
Merry Christmas, y’all! Blessings!
Pokey
December 24, 2020 11:30 am
Absolutely my favorite Christmas song! Thanks for posting. My Church usually does this song in the Christmas day service. We may not get that this year.
Thank you, Menagerie, that was beautiful! Brought tears to my eyes and goose-bumps.
Merry Christmas to all the Treepers!
Jef Fincher
December 24, 2020 1:48 pm
Merry Christmas!
sozomuse
December 24, 2020 1:51 pm
Yes Virginia, there is at least one live Christmas musical production active in America. Grace Chapel Leipers Fork (Franklin) TN debuted “Welcome to The Sound of Hope” last night. It was simply Glorious in this musician’s opinion.
Christmas Eve live showtimes are 4pm and 6pm Central. (Highly recommend to attend live) For more info: https://gracechapel.net/christmas/
Live streaming: https://gracechapel.net/live/
Merry Christmas to All!
Thank you CTH. Such a beautiful song of the Season.
Wishes for a Joyful Christmas to All!
carole
December 24, 2020 1:59 pm
Then Let Us Be Merry
“Then let us be merry – put sorrow away – our Saviour Christ Jesus was born on this day.” So the song goes. A simple tune with a lilting rhythm, it tends to stay in the mind.
Sitting here this December morning, waiting for the dryer to signal that clothes need folding, I’m drinking a cup of good coffee, reading the Book of John from Eugene Peterson’s Bible translation, “The Message,” while in the background the San Francisco-based “Chanticleer” sings Christmas carols on the CD player: a mixture of ancient and modern, old and new…our younger son who is traveling in India for a month and won’t be home for Christmas sent me the CD.
I put the coffee down, lay the book aside, listen…memories of Christmases past flood my thought…sad and sweet. Sad, because they are gone; sweet because they happened and I can remember them as clearly as if it were today. I can see my large, extended family gathered around the table on Christmas Day, talking, laughing, happy to be together. They are all gone now, the old ones passed on, my contemporaries and their children and grandchildren – all of us living in different parts of the country and faraway in England, communicating sometimes only once a year in Christmas cards.
In my mind’s eye I can see Christmas Eve at Grama and Grampa Smith’s big old house on Ballard Street with Grama’s brothers and their wives, my aunt and uncle, Mom and Dad all sitting around the Christmas tree. I am very young, small enough to curl up on my mother’s lap while the grownups talk their grownup talk. I never tired of listening to them; it didn’t matter what they were saying. It was their voices I loved: those warm mellow English voices, the accent so familiar, so comforting. There wasn’t a care in the world it seemed to me then. Home very late, tucked into bed by my parents who heard my prayers, kissed me goodnight and closed the door softly. Looking out the window at the moon-sparkled snow and up to the starlit sky, I fell asleep watching for Santa and his sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer…
Our first Christmas together, my husband and I: We were both in school had almost no money and had decided we couldn’t afford a Christmas tree. But then two days before Christmas, we pooled our funds and came up with $4.28 between us. With that, we found a tree that looked perfect from the front (albeit decimated in the back) that the man at the tree lot let us have for $1.50. We were able to go to the dimestore and buy a set of colored lights and some ornaments with the rest. The lights have long since been replaced; I still have the ornaments. It was the most beautiful Christmas tree.
A bleak, snowy, sad, unemployed Christmas in our mid-years, I didn’t want to put up a tree. I wished I could be anywhere but where I was. I knew the feeling, then, of people who say Christmas is the worst day of the year. But we did pull down the attic stairs and haul out our fake, falling-apart tree, jury-rigged it together. The lights still worked. We hung the dimestore ornaments. I made gifts for our parents: cut up precious snapshots of them with us and our children from all the years gone by and made collages. My mother cried when she opened her gift. I have those collages today, here in my office. They show the richness of our life together, sometimes with and sometimes without material blessings. We went into debt that year to buy presents for our boys and we were not sorry about that. Scared, maybe. But not sorry.
This year’s Christmas is reason for quiet gratitude. We are grateful for our home, for each other, for our family and friends, grateful to live in Oxford where these things matter. Yesterday, our almost-four-year-old grandson gave us a whole day of his companionship. I think perhaps his parents may have taken him through the live Nativity at Delrayno Baptist Church because at lunch he told me he had seen a camel. I knew he’d been to the zoo and asked if that is where he’d seen the camel “No” he answered. And then he looked at me with solemn eyes and said, “There was no room at the inn. Joseph and Mary had to stay in a stable. Baby Jesus was born in a manger.”
Of all the Christmases I have experienced – and there have been many: this will be my 65th Christmas – this one is the sweetest yet. The little face of a child I love more than I can say looking at me with such steadfast and serious purpose telling me the Story of the Nativity as if I had never heard it before – as if the story of the birth of Christ were brand new.
And so it is.
Covertly Astute
December 24, 2020 2:00 pm
Glory to God in the highest. It’s Christmas Eve, and I am looking forward to my adult children and their families to arrive later this evening. Our annual get together tradition continues. We’ll give thanks to God, for this beautiful evening. There will be songs to sing and tamales to eat, we’re in Texas after all. Stay safe my fellow Treepers, never stop believing. God bless y’all and Merry Christmas.
Joejrfl
December 24, 2020 2:09 pm
Cowboy79
December 24, 2020 2:18 pm
Pie Jesu
Cowboy79
December 24, 2020 2:24 pm
Jussi Bjørling -O Helga Natt
Patrick Leahy
December 24, 2020 2:43 pm
I am not sure if I had tears of sadness or tears of joy, but this absolutely brought me to my knees…
Poppydon
December 24, 2020 2:43 pm
Thank You Menagerie and Sundance and all. You have lifted my heart.
Patricia
December 24, 2020 2:48 pm
I discovered this video recently on YT, too. Exquisitely beautiful. Peter Hollens signing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” is also a rare treat. Hound and Fox singing “Mary Did you Know?” is also gorgeous. These are some of my favorite independent artists on YT.
This is my favorite Christmas song. Thanks for posting. I miss when we used to have a thread for favorit Christmas songs. Even the daily thread did not have that many music videos posted. I am thankful for Menagerie
Watching this beautiful video, it struck me how much Christianity is tied up in honoring the potential of the child. The child is every thing. The cure for cancer will come from the child, alive now or unborn. And so on.
The secular leftists who plague us now are obsessed with the burden of the child. The child is a mouth to feed. The child is a challenge to the single mother. Abortion becomes the shortcut. So paradoxical that in a culture devoted to the welfare state feeding small children is a such a challenge.
In agricultural cultures, the child has for millenia been another hand to work the field. Now that our agriculture is so mechanized, that rationale has abandoned us. Still, without the child we cease to exist. We must solve this simple riddle or perish.
“Still, without the child we cease to exist. We must solve this simple riddle or perish.”
Even the adult performers in that beautiful video are expressing their joyous, innocent, and true identities as children of God.
Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Menagerie, thank you for the beautiful music.
“Even the adult performers in that beautiful video are expressing their joyous, innocent, and true identities as children of God.” Yes, they certainly are.
We can be child-like, no matter what our age. We can be born again. We can think the good and pure thoughts that come from God. We can be brave and hopeful, because we know that all is in the hands of the Lord.
Merry Christmas, everyone! 🙂
When you see the pure smile of a child you get a glimpse of what the human race would have been like without the fall.
Just had cancer surgery a few weeks – successful.
That was so beautiful. Made me weep for joy.
Thank you and God bless you all.
…a few weeks ago
A beautiful song to wake me up! Thank you CTH. Merry Christmas to you and yours. ?
I loved the part of the video where the Angels come in.
Our family has a lot of Angels in it.
In the last six years we I have had my mother, two of my younger brothers and four of my sweet young grand children pass away.
They are all still very much a part of our family but now live in our hearts as Angels.
I did enjoy the part of the video where the many Angels came to celebrate the birth of the beloved Christ, may of them small children.
Thanks Menagerie.
I send you my best wishes, for comfort and peace.
A beautiful aside to the most vile people in our country just signing a ‘bill’ to send more of our money to everyone in the world except our citizens that pay for it!
I believe in you People far more than anyone in the world. God bless you and have a wonderful Christmas!! It is true… Live your best life!
Cesar Franck’s music for Psalm 150 (note how the music starts in darkness, so to speak, and ends up in bright triumph):
Thank you for that , Menagerie.
Another “Gloria” version by Michael W Smith…our church used to do a full choir, orchestra version of this, which was quite inspiring! Merry Christmas to all. God’s Blessings to you and all the world!
Just lovely! A most blessed Christmas to all.
Let us have Peace in our day through the Prince of Peace, the Lord of lords, forever!
Amen!
Thank you, tears of joy. Merry Christmas.
Lovely! ‘…Adonai upholds the righteous. Adonai knows what the wholehearted suffer, but their inheritance lasts forever…’ from Ps 37
Thanks Menagerie, for lifting our spirits with praise to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Always like this song! 😀
Thank you
That song and video is a Marvelous integrated representation of positive teamwork with a selfless purpose, as We give thanks to HIM.
It was not easy.
Finding the best-version-of-themselves, to help others.
But,
they made it happen, together … with Joy with others
Seeing what God’s children – of all walks of life – did together
to send a heavenly message of appreciation and love to HIM – and us – simultaneously.
With his help, it is a wonderful creation…paying it forward … ( the video is being forwarded, for others to forward to others, a positive ripple affect.)
“Seeing what God’s children – of all walks of life – did together ….”
I posted a similar thought, that I wouldn’t have, if I’d seen your thoughtful post first.
When the epitaph of the human race is written, its crowning achievement will be music.
The angels were singing before God created us, but we have created a beautiful repertoire!
Even God sings over us.
Zephaniah 3:17; The Lord your God is in your midst, a Mighty One, who will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will renew you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.
I watch and share this glorious video every year. And I never fail to weep.
With joy. With thanksgiving to our Father, who blessed us with the greatest Gift, His Son.
thank you for sharing, Menagerie. Merry Christmas!
Glory to God for His Son Christ Jesus!
Goosebumps. Every time.
Merry Christmas Treepers.
God was born as a tiny little baby. That’s how much he loves us.
God bless you and God bless PDJT!
Thank you Menagerie, this really felt good..brightened up my morning. Now I will listen to the other music posted here. Merry Christmas.
AMEN! Thank you Lord!
Thank You………..God Bless
I watched, with tears in my eyes, … and hope in my heart.
Merry Christmas! to one and all.
Gracias!
Again thank you menagerie. You make Christmas a time to enjoy with all of the wonderful thing you post to Unite people. Merry Christmas to you, sundance, Conner and all the rest of your family and Merry Christmas to you My family here at The Conservative Treehouse, may Jesus find you in Every season now and in the coming New Year. To my knowledge I know none of you personally, but regardless of that I love each and every one of you, even the trolls and Communists that visit just to cause trouble, I love you and So Does GOD, Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas Everyone in the Treehouse and God Bless…
The Space Museum in 2013 the US Air Force Band:
Enjoy!!!
Christmas on the battlefield during the Civil War, World War One and in a tiny cottage in the Hurtgen Forest during the Battle of the Bulge.
https://CanadaFreePress.com/article/the-proxy-crock-memos
Wow, that was magnificent !! Where’s the Kleenex?
Pardon me while I dry my eyes…how beautiful…the joy in the singers faces…and the participants of this beautiful Nativity rendition. It brings me back in time, to 1987 where my 5 week old baby boy was privileged to play the role of “the Babe in the manger”….right now, am overwhelmed with joy and memories….and very wet eyes….God Bless each and every one of you! Merry and joyous Christmas!
Me too aggie girl. I have two boys in College station and hopefully one more next year. God Bless.
University of Texas 1979…Mechanical Engineering!!!!
Every child needs a grandmother like you Menagerie!
No matter what happens, they can NEVER take Jesus out of our hearts!
This song holds place of honor at the very end of my Christmas playlist, and gets listened to multiple times throughout the last three months of the year.
Simply beautiful ❤️
Merry Christmas, y’all! Blessings!
Absolutely my favorite Christmas song! Thanks for posting. My Church usually does this song in the Christmas day service. We may not get that this year.
What a Light shines in those faces !
Got the Secret Sam one year and my most fav another. The Mattel Sonic Blaster…!!!! I think it is why my hearing is not what it used to be!
This is suppose to be posted under Anticipation. We still have a few bugs to work out!
The flurries turned snow as I read your post.
Thank you Menagerie
Thank you, Menagerie, that was beautiful! Brought tears to my eyes and goose-bumps.
Merry Christmas to all the Treepers!
Merry Christmas!
Yes Virginia, there is at least one live Christmas musical production active in America. Grace Chapel Leipers Fork (Franklin) TN debuted “Welcome to The Sound of Hope” last night. It was simply Glorious in this musician’s opinion.
Christmas Eve live showtimes are 4pm and 6pm Central. (Highly recommend to attend live) For more info: https://gracechapel.net/christmas/
Live streaming: https://gracechapel.net/live/
Merry Christmas to All!
I wonder how you get the paragraphs to stick.
Thank you CTH. Such a beautiful song of the Season.
Wishes for a Joyful Christmas to All!
Then Let Us Be Merry
“Then let us be merry – put sorrow away – our Saviour Christ Jesus was born on this day.” So the song goes. A simple tune with a lilting rhythm, it tends to stay in the mind.
Sitting here this December morning, waiting for the dryer to signal that clothes need folding, I’m drinking a cup of good coffee, reading the Book of John from Eugene Peterson’s Bible translation, “The Message,” while in the background the San Francisco-based “Chanticleer” sings Christmas carols on the CD player: a mixture of ancient and modern, old and new…our younger son who is traveling in India for a month and won’t be home for Christmas sent me the CD.
I put the coffee down, lay the book aside, listen…memories of Christmases past flood my thought…sad and sweet. Sad, because they are gone; sweet because they happened and I can remember them as clearly as if it were today. I can see my large, extended family gathered around the table on Christmas Day, talking, laughing, happy to be together. They are all gone now, the old ones passed on, my contemporaries and their children and grandchildren – all of us living in different parts of the country and faraway in England, communicating sometimes only once a year in Christmas cards.
In my mind’s eye I can see Christmas Eve at Grama and Grampa Smith’s big old house on Ballard Street with Grama’s brothers and their wives, my aunt and uncle, Mom and Dad all sitting around the Christmas tree. I am very young, small enough to curl up on my mother’s lap while the grownups talk their grownup talk. I never tired of listening to them; it didn’t matter what they were saying. It was their voices I loved: those warm mellow English voices, the accent so familiar, so comforting. There wasn’t a care in the world it seemed to me then. Home very late, tucked into bed by my parents who heard my prayers, kissed me goodnight and closed the door softly. Looking out the window at the moon-sparkled snow and up to the starlit sky, I fell asleep watching for Santa and his sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer…
Our first Christmas together, my husband and I: We were both in school had almost no money and had decided we couldn’t afford a Christmas tree. But then two days before Christmas, we pooled our funds and came up with $4.28 between us. With that, we found a tree that looked perfect from the front (albeit decimated in the back) that the man at the tree lot let us have for $1.50. We were able to go to the dimestore and buy a set of colored lights and some ornaments with the rest. The lights have long since been replaced; I still have the ornaments. It was the most beautiful Christmas tree.
A bleak, snowy, sad, unemployed Christmas in our mid-years, I didn’t want to put up a tree. I wished I could be anywhere but where I was. I knew the feeling, then, of people who say Christmas is the worst day of the year. But we did pull down the attic stairs and haul out our fake, falling-apart tree, jury-rigged it together. The lights still worked. We hung the dimestore ornaments. I made gifts for our parents: cut up precious snapshots of them with us and our children from all the years gone by and made collages. My mother cried when she opened her gift. I have those collages today, here in my office. They show the richness of our life together, sometimes with and sometimes without material blessings. We went into debt that year to buy presents for our boys and we were not sorry about that. Scared, maybe. But not sorry.
This year’s Christmas is reason for quiet gratitude. We are grateful for our home, for each other, for our family and friends, grateful to live in Oxford where these things matter. Yesterday, our almost-four-year-old grandson gave us a whole day of his companionship. I think perhaps his parents may have taken him through the live Nativity at Delrayno Baptist Church because at lunch he told me he had seen a camel. I knew he’d been to the zoo and asked if that is where he’d seen the camel “No” he answered. And then he looked at me with solemn eyes and said, “There was no room at the inn. Joseph and Mary had to stay in a stable. Baby Jesus was born in a manger.”
Of all the Christmases I have experienced – and there have been many: this will be my 65th Christmas – this one is the sweetest yet. The little face of a child I love more than I can say looking at me with such steadfast and serious purpose telling me the Story of the Nativity as if I had never heard it before – as if the story of the birth of Christ were brand new.
And so it is.
Glory to God in the highest. It’s Christmas Eve, and I am looking forward to my adult children and their families to arrive later this evening. Our annual get together tradition continues. We’ll give thanks to God, for this beautiful evening. There will be songs to sing and tamales to eat, we’re in Texas after all. Stay safe my fellow Treepers, never stop believing. God bless y’all and Merry Christmas.
Pie Jesu
Jussi Bjørling -O Helga Natt
I am not sure if I had tears of sadness or tears of joy, but this absolutely brought me to my knees…
I discovered this video recently on YT, too. Exquisitely beautiful. Peter Hollens signing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” is also a rare treat. Hound and Fox singing “Mary Did you Know?” is also gorgeous. These are some of my favorite independent artists on YT.
This is my favorite Christmas song. Thanks for posting. I miss when we used to have a thread for favorit Christmas songs. Even the daily thread did not have that many music videos posted. I am thankful for Menagerie
Thank you for sharing! Simply beautiful.