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The 2nd Verse
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We were singing Christmas songs in a staff meeting at our
family business. We have a devotional service before the
business portion starts. The current song was "Joy to the
World."
Everyone chimed in heartily as we sang the first verse.
Then the second verse began.
Bright energetic voices changed into muffled and muted hums
and babbling. My mother was standing beside me. Only her
voice punched through the disharmonious ramblings of the
crowd. She knew every word and sang it strong and clear.
It is also amazing how one person who truly knows punches
through the confusion.
I didn't know the second verse along with the rest of the
crowd, but mother has always been different.
It was a MountainWings Moment.
Most of us know the first verse. Few of us know beyond the
surface and the general knowledge of the crowd. It is true
with Joy to the World. It is true with true joy.
That which separates you from the crowd
is always deeper than the surface.
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 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.
Joy to the World by Pastor Isaac Watts (1719)
That which separates you from the crowd
is always deeper than the surface.
~A MountainWings Original~
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