“How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭36‬:‭7‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Hello October! With less than 3 months until Christmas I thought, why not start today with the photo we took a couple of weeks ago of the Silent-Night-Chapel. This church is in Oberndorf, Austria and stands at the site of a former church that was destroyed by flooding. This is the church where Franz Gruber, schoolmaster and organist, first performed a song for which he had written a melody for a poem by Joseph Mohr. He sang Silent Night here, for the first time ever, on Christmas Eve, 1818. Amazingly, he was called on to do music that night and used his guitar because the organ had been damaged by flooding. Floods wreaked havoc on the organ and later the church, yet such calamity brought about the most beloved and probably most sung Christmas song ever, worldwide!READ MORE