{"id":955,"date":"2010-12-24T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/12\/because-to-me-this-is-a-christmas-song\/"},"modified":"2015-06-07T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:36:15","slug":"because-to-me-this-is-a-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/12\/because-to-me-this-is-a-christmas-song.html","title":{"rendered":"Because To Me, This is a Christmas Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_-GKMR8mFGBs\/TRUR0jKsrBI\/AAAAAAAABQ4\/upeWOcdaQSo\/s1600\/U2+Album+Cover.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_-GKMR8mFGBs\/TRUR0jKsrBI\/AAAAAAAABQ4\/upeWOcdaQSo\/s200\/U2+Album+Cover.jpeg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>But maybe that\u2019s just me\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, \u06a9\u0631\u06cc\u0633\u0645\u0633 \u0645\u0628\u0627\u0631\u06a9, Selamat Hari Natal, \u05d7\u05d2 \u05de\u05d5\u05dc\u05d3 \u05e9\u05de\u05d7, Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo, \u092e\u0947\u0930\u0940 \u0915\u094d\u0930\u093f\u0938\u092e\u0938, Maligayang Pasko, \u0639\u064a\u062f \u0645\u064a\u0644\u0627\u062f \u0645\u062c\u064a\u062f, Froehliche Weihnachten, \u8056\u8a95\u7bc0\u5feb\u6a02, Joyeux No\u00ebl, \u0421 \u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c, Buone Feste Natalizie, \uba54\ub9ac \ud06c\ub9ac\uc2a4\ub9c8\uc2a4, Feliz Natal, \u30e1\u30ea\u30fc\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9, Sawadee Pee Mai,<br><a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br><i>For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him. (John 3:17)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Beautiful Day,<\/i> U2.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y43R2qbHDbU?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y43R2qbHDbU?fs=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Touch me <br>Take me to that other place <br>Teach me<br>I know I\u2019m not a hopeless case <\/i><\/p>\n<p>See the world in green and blue <br>Hyde Park, London stretched out in front of you <br>Dublin, Rome, Paris France <br>Philadelphia this is not romance<br>Moscow, Toronto, Tokyo<br>Africa we\u2019re coming home<br>And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth <br>After the flood all the colors came out <\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day <br>Don\u2019t let it get away <br>Beautiful day <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s make it a two-fer!<\/p>\n<p><i>In the Name of Love.<\/i><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LHcP4MWABGY?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LHcP4MWABGY?fs=1<\/a>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" 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