Life doesn't give you very many moments to just be quiet and reflect. Here's Nancy DeMoss

Walglemouth. And I think one of the reasons that so little God talk in a meaningful way comes

out of our mouths is because we're always having noise and talk and clutter around us, and we

have so little time to listen to God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, December 14th, 2015.

It's the season of malls, commercials, traffic, rehearsals, and parties.

Do you ever find yourself just wishing for the gift of silence?

One biblical character learned quite a bit about silence in the season leading up to Christ's birth.

We can learn a lot from his example.

Here's Nancy in the series, Zachariah's hymn. One of the things I love about this time of year

is all the Christmas carols, the Christmas music. Sometimes you can still even walk into a mall or a store

today and hear those Christmas carols playing. And I don't think

anymore that everybody is familiar with what all those words are, but if you grew up hearing those

carols, there are a rich part of our Christmas heritage. And so many of them tell the story of that

first Christmas. Speaking of that first Christmas, I think in the Gospels in the New Testament, my favorite

accounts of that first Christmas take place in the Gospel of Luke. And one of the things I enjoy

about the Gospel of Luke is that it includes five songs or hymns that were sung or spoken at the

first Christmas surrounding the birth of Christ.

Three of those songs are found in the first chapter of Luke.

And you remember what they are.

First, Elizabeth sang or spoke a hymn, a carol of praise when Mary came to visit her.

And then Mary speaks the words of what we've come to call the Magnificat.

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