Laura requested this one, and I chose this Celtic Woman version–O Holy Night.
This is the answer, this is the message, this is the meaning: this is the truth.
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Encore, ‘O Holy Night’ (John Berry)
This version, sung by John Berry, has also been posted on my chess page, and I’m moved to share it here (thank you, “Ohio Chess Fan”).
Why?
Because this indeed is our answer to this evil and benighted age: to the whited walls of renegade churches, to the rattling empty gourds who think they might as well use dead astronauts to “create new forms of life” on other planets, to the secular tyrants and their libido for coercion–our answer is this baby in a manger, and the man on the cross, and the same man risen triumphant from the tomb: this man, Jesus Christ, the Son of God and King of Kings.
For our God is indeed an awesome God.
Sanity Refill: ‘O Holy Night’
Our esteemed colleague “Jessicafischerqueen” posted this on my chess forum this morning, adding that she hopes it’s not too early in the year for this hymn.
Well, Jess, I think it was downright providential that you chose to share this with us today.
Folks, let’s not get carried away with our fears, like the scouts whom Moses sent into the Promised Land, who came back moaning about the power and might of its inhabitants. “We’re like grasshoppers, compared to them! They’re much too strong for us! We just can’t do it!” But of course it was the Canaanites who should have been afraid.
And today it’s the rich, powerful, fat-head globalists who ought to be afraid. Not us–for we serve an awesome God.
Our King is greater than Caesar. And Caesar himself was a bigger man than any of these fools who run around prattling about Global Warming. So was Sennacherib, and you know how he ended up: his mighty army wiped out in a night by plague, a humiliating retreat back the way he came, and assassination at the hands of his own sons.
They’ve got wealth, connections, power, and pride.
We’ve got a baby in a manger.
And He will prevail.
Again, ‘O Holy Night’
One more morsel of Christmas–this one courtesy of my friend “jessicafischerqueen,” who posted this video on my chess forum page.
I dunno, where is everybody today? Are you all Christmased out, or what? Or just plain tired? Well, who would blame you? I’m running on the fumes, too.
Anyhow, I’m still taking requests for hymns and Christmas carols, so don’t be shy, let me know what you’d like to see and hear.
Hymn, ‘O Holy Night’
By reader request, here’s O Holy Night, performed by Celtic Woman. They do nice work.
We play our carols throughout the day on Christmas Eve, as I struggle to erect and decorate our tree. It’s worth the effort, though.
I’m happy to take requests and post them, so don’t be shy, folks.