A Message of Peace and Good Will

As we approach the season for the Christmas holiday, I want to give you something to read and think about which will relate to every daily blog between now and December 25.  The scriptures which announced the birth of the baby in Bethlehem were accompanied with the encouragement  of "Peace on earth, good will to men."

Since that is going to be central in our study,  I've printed the words to the familiar Christmas song so you can have them close, while referring to them again and again.  Read all the verses and measure their meaning through their impact on your daily living.  This shall be our message of Christmas.  

 I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Their old familiar carols play,
As wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

 I 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.

 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."

 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!

                                                    --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882),

 

 

 

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