Emmanuel, God Is With Us

Here is a video I made afew years ago of the Casting Crown's song Emmanuel, God Is With Us.

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

My heart has been so heavy these last few days. I did not really know how to grieve children and adults I had never met. This is a video that I made as a tribute to the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary. Feel free to share this.  I pray it gives healing to others, but most of all I pray it leads others to pray for the families of the victims.
 
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and music by Casting Crowns, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day is not a Christmas Carol.  It is a song of grief and loss.  Longfellow's son fought and died in the Civil War shortly before he was to come home.  Longfellow had hoped to repair the rift that had come between them by his enlistment in the Union army. His wife then died in an accidental fire. The double loss was too much for him, and about to end it all, he heard the bells on Christmas day took up his pen instead.
   
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep
God is not dead nor does He sleep
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on Earth, good will to men.