Hello everyone!
Today is the first sunday in advent, which means that it is advent/christmas blogging for my blog. I’ve been doing this at various levels for 5 years now, and this year I’m going to theme each week by advent candle. This week will be ‘hope’, so expect musings, memories, songs, and videos relating to the Hope of Christmas coming.
To start us off, here is what I believe is the most hopeful song in the history of Christmas hymns. It says everything I would want to say about it, so here it is:
O Come O Come Emmanuel
O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan’s tyranny
From depths of Hell Thy people save
And give them victory o’er the grave
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, O come, Thou Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes, on Sinai’s height,
In ancient times did’st give the Law,
In cloud, and majesty and awe.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
This entry was written by , posted on November 29, 2009 at 11:53 pm, filed under Christianity, Uncategorized and tagged 2009, Advent, hope. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
So hey. I think I forgot to tell you guys that I have a bonified, full-time-with-benefits-and-pension-plan-9-to-5-dress-like-an-adult job. I’m the Web Content Specialist at my Alma Mater (almost), Tyndale University College and Seminary. It’s pretty exciting to be creating things on a (nearly) daily basis, with more coming down the stretch in the next few months. In honour of that, despite the fact that I have had the job for two months, I need to update this place.
My friend Dan pointed on his site to this idea called ‘blogazining.’ The idea is that blogs are too standardized and the creativity of the layout is lacking to the extreme. This inspired me to really analyze my own layouts to see if I can go a different direction than I have before. Playing around with code was an idea I had when I started this whole domain-name thing in the first place, so I really need to sit down and think on this.
Have you ever seen the guys at CSS Zen Garden? Talk about some of the prettiest CSS out there.
Well, that’s all I guess – just wanted to fill in people who didn’t know. Drop a line about where I can find some good ideas for designing this place.
WK
This entry was written by , posted on November 21, 2009 at 10:14 am, filed under Blog, Life and tagged Blog, Design. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.