<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Congregants and Friends, </span><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Today is the day Orthodox Armenians celebrate Christmas. With that in mind, I wanted to share a song that, for me, embodies the essential message Jesus of Nazareth came to teach. </span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">\u201cStables\u201d by Peter Mayer.</span><span style="text-wrap-mode: wrap;"> - </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please take a moment to listen.</span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG17CVpON_A"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG17CVpON_A" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#D6C7B9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:168px;" width="300" height="168" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="maxresdefault.jpg" src="cid:6FCBC071-8D59-402A-99BC-67AC095F044C"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#D6C7B9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(214, 199, 185, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG17CVpON_A" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Stables</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG17CVpON_A" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">youtube.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">May this year to come be one of love and peace... and may we ourselves "Be Love" in a world that truly needs it.</span><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">May it be so. </span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">With </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">blessings &</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> love, </span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rev. Sonia <br></span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG17CVpON_A" class="x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7">_</a>____</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>LYRICS: </b>Stables By Peter Mayer:</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In Bethlehem, a manger waits, Long ago and so today, Where hatred-weary people pray, Love will come and lay there.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And so do countless stables stand In hearts as harsh as desert lands, Rough shelters in the wind and sands, So love will come and stay there.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love that opens fists of hate, Heaps up gold on beggars\u2019 plates, Love that shows a kindly face To enemies and strangers.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And the walls of stables tremble so When the winds of fear and judgement blow, For a stable hopes in love alone And knows that love\u2019s the answer.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">O love the prophet\u2019s only word, The only lesson left to learn, The only end of heaven\u2019s work, And the only road that goes there.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love that sees with mercy\u2019s eyes, Holds its arms out open wide, Threads its loom with sep\u2018rate lives, And weaves them all together.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So may the lamps of stables glow, Brightly that their light may go For miles in the darkness so Love will find its way there.</span><br><br><div>
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