All Is Calm, All Is Bright...

      It seems like kids really "get" Christmas. They get that it is about family, being together, celebrating Jesus' birthday, and LOVE.

 

     Our grandsons, Brody (7 yrs.) and Logan (4 yrs.), had to celebrate Christmas a day early because their daddy, who is a Fargo fire fighter, had to work over Christmas.

 

December 23 was their "Night Before Christmas". They just knew Santa would stop at their house early so they could open their gifts in the morning as soon as Daddy got home from work.

 

     The tradition at their house is that the boys get to sleep under the tree in the living room the night Santa comes. The boys gathered all the necessary blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, and everything else needed for sleep and settled in for the night, but the excitement and anticipation was too much. They had a hard time settling down so Kristi (our daughter and the boys' mom) decided a familiar, gentle Christmas hymn might help settle them down.

 

As she gathered the boys on her lap, Kristi used her cell phone to record them as they sang, "Silent night, Holy night...". It seemed to do the trick and soon both boys were sound asleep under the soft glowing lights of the Christmas tree.

 

     Later that evening, Kristi sent me the recording she had made of the boys singing. Tears sprang to my eyes and ran down my face as I watched and listened to their sweet, innocent voices singing about the birth of Jesus. They "got" Christmas! It was about family and being together and love and celebrating a birth long ago.

    

"Silent night,

Holy night.

All is calm,

All is bright..."

 

"Sleep in Heavenly peace."