2017 Christmas Card - Angels Rejoiced

Well, it looks like this will be another year where I get my annual Christmas card onto the blog early. Of course, early for me is any time before Christmas Eve. As usual, if you want one of my cards in all its paper glory, you will either have to get one from me in real life, or request that I email you the Word file so you can print, fold, and hold it in your hands. Unbelievably, I still stubbornly send these cards out via snail mail to a select few... when I can get my address database, printer, and the Post Office to all work together at the same time.

Here is the electronic version. Merry Christmas.

Angels Rejoiced

by David Alan Hoag  -  December 10, 2017

While the angels rejoiced
At the birth of the child
Singing of peace on earth
And of us reconciled.

While the peace from above
Humbly came to the earth,
A new age was dawning
With the infant child’s birth.

God knows we need saving
For we won’t change our ways
And for wages of sin
It’s true, EVERYONE pays.

Yet, with the babe’s coming
We could turn a new page
But something was missing
For, still we kill and rage.

Men tried to contain it
Sealed it up in a grave
But Good News… it broke free
That salvation God gave.

How can it be contained
In a day, or season,
This grace of God, His Son,
Our joy beyond reason?

Well, it can’t be contained
So perhaps Christmas day
You’ll follow a new path
Jesus called it “The Way.”

Merry Christmas to You!

This Christmas, I pray that you get past the
trappings of the season to discover and embrace
the gift that God has given to all of us.

Unwrap God’s gift to you…
it’s the best present ever!

May this Christmas season bring you
love, peace, and uncontainable joy
to fill your heart, and your New Year, too!

Dave  Hoag