3RD ADVENT WORD IS JOY…to the entire neighborhood

If you’ve gone Christmas Caroling with me, we usually announced our presence to the residents of the entire neighborhood as you bravely sang along to me blasting out JOY TO THE WORLD on what’s officially called a pocket trumpet. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_trumpet)

We’d not even be on the front porch of a home yet, but in the front yard or even out in the street…or while entering the lobby of a senior living community.

All of which certainly served as an announcement.

Let’s remind each other of that Isaac Watts song this week —-

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 Savior 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 sound 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 and wonders of His love