{"id":2485,"date":"2004-12-24T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2004\/12\/24\/christmas-blessings\/"},"modified":"2004-12-24T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2004-12-24T15:37:18","slug":"christmas-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2004\/12\/24\/christmas-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Note: If the following looks familiar, it’s because I ran it two years ago. While I am<\/i> creatively challenged this morning (a rare overnight snowfall in west Texas coupled with a delicious blueberry French toast breakfast with family will do that to you), this is still one of my favorites because the song is so beautiful. I hope you and your family will enjoy the blessings of Christmas, and that the major blessing will come from understanding the grace and love of our Saviour.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mary, did you know
\nThat your baby boy
\nWould some day walk on water?
\nMary, did you know that your baby boy
\nWould save our sons and daughters?
\nDid you know that your baby boy
\nHas come to make you new?
\nThis child that you’ve delivered,
\nWill soon deliver you.<\/p>\n

Mary, did you know
\nThat your baby boy
\nWould give sight to a blind man?
\nMary, did you know that your baby boy
\nWould calm a storm with his hand?
\nDid you know that your baby boy
\nHas walked where angels trod?
\nWhen you kiss your little baby,
\nYou’ve kissed the face of God.<\/p>\n

Oh Mary, did you know…?<\/p>\n

The blind will see,
\nThe deaf will hear,
\nAnd the dead will live again.
\nThe lame will leap,
\nThe dumb will speak
\nThe praises of the Lamb…<\/p>\n

Mary, did you know
\nThat your baby boy
\nIs Lord of all creation?
\nMary, did you know that your baby boy
\nWould one day rule the nations?
\nDid you know that your baby boy
\nIs Heaven’s perfect Lamb?
\nThis sleeping child you’re holding
\nIs the great
\nI AM!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Mary, Did You Know?”
\nWords by Mark Lowry<\/a>, music by Buddy Greene<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas! [Set to the lyrics of “Mary, Did you know?”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}