{"id":3333,"date":"2025-12-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:27:53","slug":"merry-christmas-heres-a-free-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-heres-a-free-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas! Here’s a (FREE) Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas to you and yours, and I hope your day is merry and bright!\u00a0\ud83c\udf84<\/p>\n

My gift to the world is a new Christmas song, “Born to Make a Difference,” which I finally got into shape after several years of trial and editing. Here’s how it starts:<\/p>\n

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How many children were born that very night
\nAnd drew their first dramatic breaths under flickering lamplight
\nAnd wailed and were swaddled as the next day dawned
\nAnd rocked and nursed and comforted in their young mothers' arms?<\/p>\n

(Chorus)
\nHe was born to make a difference
\nHe was born for mercy and for love
\nHe was born to give the world a better way to live
\nHe was born to show the truth of God with us<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It's free<\/strong> for everybody, at either Bandcamp<\/a> or on YouTube<\/a>. If you like it, I hope you’ll share it with someone else who would!<\/p>\n

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I hope your holidays — whatever you celebrate, wherever you are — bring you joy and fulfillment, and that this year ends on a high note for you! I wish for you only good things, now and always.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

P.S. For more detailed thoughts about the Christ we celebrate, take a look at my award-winning little book, A Church More Like Christ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas to you and yours, and I hope your day is merry and bright!\u00a0\ud83c\udf84 My gift to the world is a new Christmas song, “Born to Make a Difference,” which I finally got into shape after several years of trial and editing. Here’s how it starts: How many children \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[109,21,110],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-christianity","tag-music","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}