{"id":11887,"date":"2005-11-12T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/12\/o-come-all-ye-faithful"},"modified":"2005-11-12T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T01:58:00","slug":"o-come-all-ye-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2005\/11\/12\/o-come-all-ye-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"O Come All Ye Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plainbookofmormon.com\/images\/mary_baby_jesus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/plainbookofmormon.com\/images\/mary_baby_jesus.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8220;O come, all ye faithful&#8230;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">joyful and triumphant&#8230;&#8221; <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">Celine Dion&#8217;s voice came to my ears. <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">And a smile flooded my face.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Tonight I was just sitting here listening to Celine Dion, grateful and joyfully enjoying my &#8220;night off&#8221;. How nice it is to do absolutely nothing for a change. =) <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Celine Dion sang her usual love songs, flailing her gorgeous voice into the silent night air. And I hummed along and fake sung where I felt it appropraite. =)<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">And then all at once&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8220;O come, all ye faithful&#8230;<br \/>joyful and triumphant&#8230;&#8221; <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">goose bumps. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Christmas is fast approaching. I absolutely love this time of year. Not the shopping craze, or the santas on every street corner, or the gift exchanges. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">No, none of that&#8230; not for that reason.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">See, it&#8217;s in this season that I get to sit back and reflect on the amazing glory of our Lord first coming to this earth. Can you imagine Mary&#8217;s face when she saw God&#8217;s Promise placed in her own arms? Joseph? The Angels? The shepherds? What joy, what amazement and what utter awe must have struck everyone, every living thing to see that little babe. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">I can&#8217;t wait for Christmas.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">That&#8217;s my Savior! That&#8217;s Christ the Lord!<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8220;O come, let us adore Him,<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">O come, let us adore Him,<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>O COME LET US ADORE HIM<\/em><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">CHRIST THE LORD<\/span><\/strong>!!!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;O come, all ye faithful&#8230; joyful and triumphant&#8230;&#8221; Celine Dion&#8217;s voice came to my ears. And a smile flooded my face. Tonight I was just sitting here listening to Celine Dion, grateful and joyfully enjoying my &#8220;night off&#8221;. How nice it is to do absolutely nothing for a change. =) Celine Dion sang her usual&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2005\/11\/12\/o-come-all-ye-faithful\/#more-11887\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}