{"id":3238,"date":"2022-12-04T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2022-12-04T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:21:24","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2022\/12\/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s happening again. Neighborhoods with Christmas lights and large inflated balloons of Christmas characters. Stores advertising pre-Christmas sales. Churches having special Christmas music programs. Families planning Christmas travel to be with loved ones far away.\u00a0\u00a0Boxes of Christmas decorations coming out of storage.\u00a0\u00a0Meredith Wilson wrote it in 1951 and the first to sing it was Bing Crosby, but one can hear any number of artists, who through the years sang, \u201cIt\u2019s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0At the time of the year, I am reminded of some of my favorite Christmas quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn God&#8217;s sight, it&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas whenever we rediscover the simplicity of His love and bow down in thankfulness and worship, where we are and whatever our circumstances.\u201d David Jeremiah.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don&#8217;t clean it up too quickly.\u201d Andy Rooney<\/li>\n<li>\u201cChristmas can&#8217;t be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more.\u201d Dr. Seuss<\/li>\n<li>\u201cChristmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.\u201d Norman Vincent Peale<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things \u2014 not the great occasions \u2014 give off the greatest glow of happiness.\u201d Bob Hope<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.\u201d Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n<li>\u201cChristmas is a together-y sort of holiday.\u201d Winnie the Pooh<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.&#8221; \u2014 C.S. Lewis<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFor untous a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.\u201d Isaiah 9:6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s happening again. Neighborhoods with Christmas lights and large inflated balloons of Christmas characters. Stores advertising pre-Christmas sales. Churches having special Christmas music programs. Families planning Christmas travel to be with loved ones far away.\u00a0\u00a0Boxes of Christmas decorations coming out of storage.\u00a0\u00a0Meredith Wilson wrote it in 1951 and the first to sing it was Bing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}