Prompt: Share about a favorite carol or Christmas song. What makes it special?
The Christmas hymn I know best comes from my childhood with my dad. He loved to re-enact the church pageant from his high school years. He and his friends were asked to be the Three Kings. And the hymn was “We Three Kings of Orient Are.”
However ― as only my father could retell the story ― my father recalled stepping on the heating grate in the sanctuary aisle as he processed with the others. And ― you guessed it ― he hit a high soprano on “Kings” as he stepped on the hot grate in his bare feet.
As a young girl, I would listen to my dad as he sat down at our upright piano and played this hymn and we would all sing. The piano always sat there, but I can rarely remember anyone playing it ― except at Christmas.
This memory – how much my dad loved the Christmas season and all it represents, and how he instilled in his children that love for all things Christmas – still brings a sweet smile to me.
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