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

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

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 Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest. For December 15th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Well, it's the season of shopping, commercials, extra deliveries, 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, they're 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. And then we have the hymn or the song we're going to look at this

week that Zachariah spoke at the birth of his son, John the Baptist, beginning in verse 68 of

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