Over the next several weeks we turn our hearts and minds to the joy and wonder of our Savior’s birth.  As we do so, we’ll direct our attention to the deeply personal, deeply prayerful, musical expressions of three individuals who were as different as they were unique.  A very young peasant girl; a cultured, patrician priest; and a very obscure, very devout, and very aged prophet.  Each of whom left to us the spiritual legacy of a psalm, every bit as timeless and valuable to our personal devotion and corporate worship as any psalm of David.   And like the psalms of David, each an intensely personal expression giving poetic voice to an intensely personal experience.  Taken together, an eloquent reminder that the sights and sounds of the nativity are nothing if not personal.  This morning we’ll hear and consider the first of those psalms, in Luke 1:46-55, in a message entitled, “The Song of the Soul Set Free”.