Dec 17 Share your Favorite Christmas Carol

Dec. 17- Share on blog, Facebook, email, etc. your favorite Christmas Carol and tell why it’s your favorite.

This was really hard for me because I love Christmas music.  Todd's brother who would listen to it year round, but his family objects once said, "I love Christmas Music because it is always positive and not offensive in any way".  I think that is because of the Spirit of Christmas, it is reflected in the music.  

One of my favorite, which we don't sing near enough (Todd complains about it every year), although we did sing it a week ago at church is "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day".  

A member in our ward told the story about how this was written.  It was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  After his wife had died tragically after her dress caught on fire while cooking and then his son was paralyzed fighting for the Union Army in the Civil War. 

On Christmas day, 1861 he penned the poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day".  He shows us that even in despair and heartbreak "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep".
 

And in despair I bowed my head;
“There is no peace on earth,” I said;

“For hate is strong,

And mocks the song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;

The Wrong shall fail,

The Right prevail,

With peace on earth, good-will to men.”