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First, Thank you for coming here from time to time, and letting me express what’s on my heart! \u00a0I pray you are grtting ready to have a wonderful, warm and safe Christmas and a great New Year!<\/p>\n
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My Christmas mesaage is a simple one, the reason for the season, the birth \u00a0of a Savior, Jesus Christ. \u00a0We sang thes hymn in chruch this morning and it sums up my goal, and purpose, I hope it helps you to have a wonderful Holiday!<\/p>\n
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I’d Rather Have Jesus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n May this entry find you in peace and joy!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Blesings and Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First, Thank you for coming here from time to time, and letting me express what’s on my heart! \u00a0I pray you are grtting ready to have a wonderful, warm and safe Christmas and a great New Year! My Christmas mesaage is a simple one, the reason for the season, the birth \u00a0of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20195,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194\/revisions\/20195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\nI\u2019d rather be His than have riches untold;<\/strong><\/span>
\nI\u2019d rather have Jesus than houses or lands;<\/strong><\/span>
\nI\u2019d rather be led by His nail-pierced hand<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n\n
\nThan to be the king of a vast domain<\/strong><\/span>
\nOr be held in sin\u2019s dread sway;<\/strong><\/span>
\nI\u2019d rather have Jesus than anything<\/strong><\/span>
\nThis world affords today.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
\nI\u2019d rather be faithful to His dear cause;<\/strong><\/span>
\nI\u2019d rather have Jesus than worldwide fame;<\/strong><\/span>
\nI\u2019d rather be true to His holy name<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
\nHe\u2019s sweeter than honey from out the comb;<\/strong><\/span>
\nHe\u2019s all that my hungering spirit needs;<\/strong><\/span>
\nI\u2019d rather have Jesus and let Him lead<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n