The Night Before Christmas

Hello and welcome to the Panhandle. Well this last Sunday was our Christmas Program. We are not big enough for a choir any more so no cantatas or choir specials. Instead we have folks sign up to do specials like readings or songs. I finish up with a short sermon or reading. This year it was a song that I read like a poem, why didn't I sing it? The answer is simple I can't sing well, especially by myself. 

I heard this song sang at our Associaltional Christmas party and really liked it. I pray you will enjoy it to.   

The Night Before Christmas

Songwriters: Chuck Butler / Luke Brown / Regie Hamm

Empty manger,
Perfect stranger,
About to be born.
Into darkness, sadness,
Desperate madness, creation so torn.

We were so lost on earth,
No peace, no worth.
No way to escape.
In fear, no faith, no hope,
No grace, and no light

But that was the night before Christmas.
Warm hay, cold sweat, a mother, not yet.
Praying godspeed the dawn.
She looks to her man, holding her hand.
They wonder how long.

And the shepherds,
Wise men come to find them,
And bow to a king.
One star above shining on love,
So bright it lit up the night before Christmas.

And the world didn't know mercy was meek and so mild.
And the world didn't know that truth was as pure as a child.
The night before Christmas.

The night before Christmas.

And the world didn't know,
Redemption was sweet and so strong.
And the world didn't know salvation was writing a song.
The night before christmas.

The night before christmas.
The night before christmas.
Empty manger, perfect stranger, about to be born.

The Night Before Christmas lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Essential Music Publishing