Advent Carol for December 8

Advent Carol for December 8

Written by Lise Caldwell

Then let us all with one accord
Sing praises to our heavenly Lord,
That hath made heaven and earth of naught,
And with his blood mankind has bought.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.

The beginning and the end, the Maker and Redeemer, laid first in a manger-cradle, and then in an unused tomb. The blood of birth and the blood of death–precious, unfathomable, crimson love.