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		<title>Christmas Thoughts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s still surprising to me that something that happened 12 years ago can still evoke the same sense of wonder now that it did then. It was right before Christmas, December 17th to be exact, that God suddenly showed up in my life again after a long absence. To this day, I can&#8217;t listen to the familiar hymns of Christmas without reliving those first weeks of hearing the words for what seemed like the first time and realizing bit by bit that this was no fairy story as I had long believed, but it had really happened. Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the new-born King! The new-born King? King? I&#8217;ve been treating him like dirt my entire life . . . Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled! I remember attending a performance of The Marriage of Figgaro in about 1985. The music was wonderful, but the opera part wasn&#8217;t doing a whole lot for me, mostly because it was in another language. Somewhere toward the end, though, everything changed as the music alone just reached right into my soul and pierced all the way through to something I didn&#8217;t even know existed. Suddenly my eyes were full of tears and I just wanted . . . . There were no words for what I wanted, but that haunting sense of longing for something I couldn&#8217;t even name never really left. What I wanted then, and wandered lost for another dozen years trying to find....]]></description>
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