Extremely powerful and truthful post.
While sitting around playing games on my phone the other day, my youngest daughter started to talk about her upcoming choir concert for school. She was excited to perform the songs they had learned and gave me a sneak peek of the upcoming show. When the preview was over she sighed and said, “Do you know what my favorite Christmas song is?” I didn’t so I told her so. She replied, “Mary, Did You Know?”
This surprised me a bit as it really isn’t a traditional Christmas song that a 13 year-old would like so much for it to be her favorite Christmas song.
Because of the upcoming Christmas holiday, I would like to incorporate this song into the message I am giving.
If this is not a song you are familiar with, you can listen to it HERE.
The lyrics (provided by Metro Lyrics) are:
Mary, did…
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“Mary Did You Know” is not at all my taste in Christmas music, so I do not find its lyrics inspiring. The Christmas Carol that has always invoked images of loss of child to me is the Coventry Carol, a medieval carol written for the Coventry Mystery Play. It commemorates the massacre of the Holy Innocents by King Herod, who ordered all children under age 2 slain in a failed attempt to eradicate the Christ Child. It is a lullabye of loss, in that case to death, but can evoke any loss of a baby to circumstances and the times. You can find many versions on YouTube, but here are the lyrics. A blessed Christmas and New Year to all.
Lullay, Thou little tiny Child,
By, by, lully, lullay.
Lullay, Thou little tiny Child.
By, by, lully, lullay.
O sisters, too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day;
This poor Youngling for whom we sing,
By, by, lully, lullay.
Herod the King, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day;
His men of might, in his own sight,
All children young, to slay.
Then woe is me, poor Child, for Thee,
And ever mourn and say;
For Thy parting, nor say nor sing,
By, by, lully, lullay.