What if the Christmas carol is a Renaissance piece from Spain, accompanied by guitars and castanets? It just occurred to me that our family traditions are a little bit odd this year. There's nothing odd about carving pumpkins or singing Christmas carols, except that this year we are doing them at the same time and in Catalonian Spanish! We have been singing Christmas songs for a long time, in fact. It might seem odd to be singing about Christmas in the triple digit heat of September and during Halloween, but we have a choral concert coming and it just feels right to us.
Lately our lives have been so busy that we have forgotten something very important--to be happy! Today I happened to be in my small son's Sunday school class and I was reminded about the pioneers and how at the end of the day of walking and walking, they would gather together to sing and dance. It kept up their spirits and brought them joy. Even though they had not arrived at their destination, they could still find a reason to be joyful along the way. It is so important for our family to sing along the way. It just makes everything worth it. It lifts us over the mundane and helps us to remember to enjoy each other and our lives together.
We need evenings like this more often.
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