Simply put, Christmas time is indelibly encoded with a lifetime of Christmas music that I've imbibed and absorbed over the years. I tend to associate time-period memories with music anyway, but Christmas has its own bustling genre of music to delight me year after year. I have an entire CD book (and not those tiny ones either) devoted exclusively to Christmas music, and I'm one of those people who break out Christmas songs at least once every summer, just because so many of them are so fun. And so full of hope and peace. It's that quality I love. Songs of comfort and peace and the hint of cherished memories.
One song that has become one of my favorites in the last few years is by Newsong, entitled simply "The Song of Christmas." Not only do the vocals just soar, but the words just speak deep Truth to me.
God came down
Here with us
It's the Song of
Christmas.
Emmanuel. That's what it's all about -- the beautiful, earth-shaking, untamed mystery of the Incarnation. God came down. Why would he bother? The Incarnation is God's declaration that humanity matters. We matter to our Creator. As the angelic host sang: Gloria in altissimis Deo!
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