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I have always thought that the Vince Guaraldi song “Christmas Time Is Here,” from A Charlie Brown Christmas is the among most melancholy holiday songs written. There are sad songs like Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas” and the Carpenter’s “Merry Christmas Darling,” both about absent lovers. But Lee Mendelson’s words for “Christmas Time Is Here” are…

PREPARING FOR ADVENT A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. Then the glory of the LORD shall…