The Church has been singing the texts of some of these Advent and Christmastide songs for centuries. They capture the sojourn of God's people in particularly poignant and haunting ways. It's a beautiful and sometimes maddening paradox to live in the piercing light of the Incarnation and yet at times feel so helplesly lost and defeated. Advent and Christmastide is the story we live right now. We wait again expectantly for the return of the King in power ... and as we wait, we sing these pilgrim songs. When we return to these songs every year we are slowly formed into a people that are no longer ovewhelmed by the darkness around us: Our hope is confident, our love is selfless, our joy is contagious, and our peace enduring.
The Church has been singing the texts of some of these Advent and Christmastide songs for centuries. They capture the sojourn of God's people in particularly poignant and haunting ways. It's a beautiful and sometimes maddening paradox to live in the piercing light of the Incarnation and yet at times feel so helplesly lost and defeated. Advent and Christmastide is the story we live right now. We wait again expectantly for the return of the King in power ... and as we wait, we sing these pilgrim songs. When we return to these songs every year we are slowly formed into a people that are no longer ovewhelmed by the darkness around us: Our hope is confident, our love is selfless, our joy is contagious, and our peace enduring.
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