enters in and intervenes

It’s darkness where the light breaks through.
God does make his home in this.

 

I do love Christmas, it is no lie.

Earlier this year, I decided that this Christmas I ought to memorize John Donne’s poem, Nativity. I’ve blogged it before, but it’s beautiful:

Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-belov’d imprisonment,
There He hath made Himself to His intent
Weak enough, now into the world to come;
But O, for thee, for Him, hath the inn no room?
Yet lay Him in this stall, and from the Orient,
Stars and wise men will travel to prevent
The effect of Herod’s jealous general doom.
Seest thou, my soul, with thy faith’s eyes, how He
Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie?
Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high,
That would have need to be pitied by thee?
Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,
With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.

I will leave you with this treat…A Christmas Rap from Kurtis Blow, circa 1980.
Hit it.

 

bottom itunes tracks…rejected

After checking what my top tracks were…I got curious again and wondered what my bottom tracks are in itunes.

I highly recommend doing this. Not for the sake of seeing who your rejected artists are, but to find music that you didn’t know you had. Like for instance, I found out that I have the Michael Jackson The 12″ Mixes! I’ve been missing out.

Better yet, I found out that I have the entire “Let it Be” Beatles album, but I forgot about it because it wasn’t labeled right. A whole Beatles album! This is the best news I’ve heard this week!

Its like Christmas!

Merry Christmas, etc.. I hope the music lost inside the vortex of your itunes library is as brilliant as mine.