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Third Day has always been my very favorite Christian rock band. We have almost all of their CDs and Randy and I saw them in concert a few years ago. It was fantastic! (By the way, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Third Day song that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re listening to right now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6unless, your not set up to hear blog music!)<\/p>\n
I heard a month or so ago that they were putting out their first Christmas CD. I made a mental note to buy that. Then, I hear that there is a song on the album about a family missing their daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6who is in an orphanage in China\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6who they plan to adopt. Hello?? I immediately placed my order on amazon.com.<\/p>\n
The CD is wonderful, all the classic Christmas hymns. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Merry Christmas\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the last song on the CD and was written by Brad Avery, a member of the band. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his family that is in the waiting phase of their adoption from China. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve listened to this song probably 12 times, and have yet to make it through without at least choking up. Here are the words of the chorus:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Christmas time again but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not home\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Your family is here and yet you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re somewhere else alone\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6So tonight I pray that God will come and hold you in His arms\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and tell you from my heart\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I wish you Merry Christmas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n If that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get you, then here is the last chorus:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Christmas time again and now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re home\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Your family is here so you will never be alone\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6So tonight before you go to sleep I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hold you in my arms\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and tell you from my heart I wish you Merry Christmas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em><\/p>\n Oh my.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Third Day has always been my very favorite Christian rock band. We have almost all of their CDs and Randy and I saw them in concert a few years ago. It was fantastic! (By the way, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Third Day song that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re listening to right now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6unless, your not set up to hear blog music!) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}