By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--November 24, 2024

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It’s Sunday, November 24, now just one month before December 24, Christmas Eve.

Waiting for December 24 has always been easier for God-loving adults, so many of whom welcome each Christmas Eve as the Most Beautiful and Divine Night Of The Year, immortalized in song by Al Martino in ‘O Holy Night’, than it is for impatient small fry pressing their noses against window panes ever searching for snowflakes that may or may not come.

The innocence of childhood is framed by “visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads”.

Surely, no other song or Christmas Carol has more haunting immortal lyrics than as does, ‘O Holy Night’.

‘O Holy Night’

O holy night, the stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour’s birth;
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
'Till he appeared and the soul felt its........

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