Today is Wednesday, December 19th, 2012; Karen's Korner #2468

For Christmas season, it's a good time to look at the words to "Joy to the World", written by Isaac Watts in 1719. It is one of the best known and best loved of all the Christmas carols.
 
This might a good year to think about "joy" to our world and be reminded that what Christ has to offer is better than anything that the 'world' can give us:
 
Joy To The World
 
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.

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