Advent 3: Joy

Sunday evening (these posts get later and later, don't they?) we lit the third candle on our advent wreath -- the funny pink one. It's called the shepherd candle, and as we light it we recall the great joy shared with the shepherds that first Christmas night.

No photographs this week... but we thought we'd share a favorite hymn (Infant Holy, Infant Lowly).

Flocks were sleeping, shepherds keeping
vigil till the morning new
saw the glory, heard the story,
tidings of a gospel true.
Thus rejoicing, free from sorrow,
praises voicing, greet the morrow:
Christ the babe was born for you

We're praying to remember the joy in the chaos of the season, to keep our hearts fixed on "tidings of a gospel true."