A City Life For Me

  I had in my mind to write a post on the good parts of 2020, mostly because I needed reminding that it was still a good year, despite innumerable difficult parts!  I knew I would have a little bit of time between baths and when Ben returned home with the food pantry load that needs sorted tonight. Somehow in that space of time, the five year old managed to splash the entire contents of the tub all over the bathroom and down the hall, which of course made the kitchen ceiling leak...again.  Thankfully it had been mudded but not yet painted from the last bathroom catastrophe.  I was still in the middle of cleaning up the frying oil in the kitchen from dinner when all of this happened.  Sort of made me feel ungrateful for 2020 again! So before I forget...here are some bright spots in 2020 for our family.  Add some of yours in the comments! Three of my children got saved this year - Liberty, Nehemiah, and Henry Our church got kicked out of the public school....

Elaine requested that we sing Who Is He in Yonder Stall? for our hymn this month.  This is my favorite Christmas song, though only the first line talks about the nativity.  The song tells the story of what Jesus did on earth.  He came as a baby so that He could die, and now He has resurrected and rules through the earth from His throne in heaven.   Who Is He in Yonder Stall?  is written differently in different hymnbooks.  Some separate each line of the stanzas into their own short stanzas.  I learned it with two couplets per stanza before the chorus.  I also have usually heard this sung with several choruses omitted, to shorten the length of the song.  My PDF includes three choruses, but you can just print pages 3-4 again if you would like to include the refrain after each stanza. I usually laminate my song and attach the pages with jump/binder rings.  For this hymn, I put my pages together to hang vertically making one complete ve...