What are you singing these days?
December 7, 2008
Christmas is full of songs. “Hallelujah how the angels sang, Hallelujah how it rang… tis the birthday of the King.” In Luke Mary writes a magnifying the savior song. Zechariah too has his song. And a host of angels, backing up in chorus fashion the ones appearing to the shepherds, with one voice burst into an oratorio of “glory to God in the highest and on earth peace upon men on whom God’s favor rests.”
In public I rarely participate in voicing my singing; I would much rather listen to the singing of the laos of God and get my worship in by listening. In private, that’s a different story. I sing in the car, I sing in the shower, I sing at home while I play the piano. Especially at Christmas. So for the Christmas season I often sing and play during morning prayer and at night before compline. I sing hymns or Christmas carols.
My favorite Christmas song is What Child is This. It is reverential and so full of wonder and mystery. Another song that is really growing on me is “Mary, Did You Know?” Handel’s Messiah is glorious of course.
It would be good if some of you who visit us could share what your favorite Christmas song or Christmas CD is and why (if you wish). Does singing play a role in your practice of sacred rhythm?
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In the last few years my favorite song have become O Holy Night , FALL ON MY KNEES , HEAR THE ANGELS VOICES , O NIGHT DIVINE, must’ve been some night!!! I like you i don’t do much singing in church, i just listen and worship that way in public. i’m sure by now you know who this is….
Welcome on bard sis. Good to have you.
Well, I don’t know if I have a favorite…haha…we start listening to Christmas music….eeek..in Nov! BUT, my children have a favorite song….Little drummer boy. They want so badly to go back and be able to sing to baby Jesus or give him something precious to them. Everytime we hear that song they say, I would give him this….do you think He would fall asleep if I sang him a lullaby…..?? It’s so cute.
hmmmm. I wonder what my favorite song is….??? hahaha, the kids would tell you I have too many, cause I sing out loud everyday!!! hehehe..
Nichole,
Good to have you on board too, girl, and your kids hopefully eventually.
Out of the mouths of babes come many pearls of wisdom, that sometime you can’t help but think that God is speaking through them, as in this case. A child has intuitive faith (he/she knows without having reasoned it out or thought it through). They want to be the drummer boy because this kind of love and devotion has been planted in them by God for he sheds his love in our hearts. But loving and being devoted needs cultivation and sounds like your are digging deep at these roots.