Joy to the world! The
Lord is come: let earth receive her king;
Let every heart
prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing.
With “Joy to the
world” in our hearts and minds, I invite you to join me in looking each of
these twelve days for instances of the joy that runs through all of creation,
especially through experiencing the beauty and wonder of God’s world.
While parts of Nebraska had new snowfall today, in Omaha
where we spent the day it was simply cloudy and cold. It was one of those “in
the bleak midwinter” sorts of days: “Earth stood hard as iron, water like a
stone”.
But walking by snow-covered flower beds that I know are
planted with spring flower bulbs brought joy into the day, the joy of
anticipation. Just as we look with confidence for the light to appear in the
darkness, we know that new growth will start appearing in a few weeks. Meanwhile,
there are garden seeds to order and start indoors and memories of last year’s
gardens to shorten the remaining weeks of winter.
Joy to the world! The
Savior reigns; let us our songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills,
and plains, repeat the sounding joy.
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