CHRISTmas Music

Hmm..there's a song in the air!
I think I need to review my favorite Christmas music list and see what I've liked best.
Big Chili pepper likes to claim Christmas music can be played after September. Even though I say "all year long"....like P&W, in reality, actual holiday music doesn't show up until December, unless Big Chili Pepper is around to play it in September.

hmmm...
I have some old CD's still that I have loved......
BeBe and CeCe Winans have a great Christmas CD.....mine has got to be like over 10 years old.

And then there is Frank. Frank plays it both Christian and secular, but Frank is Frank and has always been part of the family. And with him arrives Bing too. Does Bing have a REAL name or was it really Bing. Either way, in music, Frank is Frank and Bing is Bing and you don't have to say the last name to know who they are, at least in the households of my relatives.

What ever happened to all the real LP records we played as kids....over and over and over in the playroom back when it had green carpet laying over the concrete, and we played dodgeball, set up the Christmas train on the sawhorse platform, and played with our little manger scene that was so so cool bc it had that hole to insert one big giant Christmas bulb to light up the manger....and we'd change out the various Christmas bulb colors. It is hard to believe that room is as small as it is considering how we, as kids, transformed the place in our minds.

Piano Christmas music.....nothing better than just playing it myself.

David Klinkenburg.......the best violinist Christmas music + add his "Jesus Loves Me" to his Christmas list.

okay, so we've got lots of other CD....various musicians, various groups....Christian, Country, Christmas movie soundtracks like "Home Alone".....but the best is going to a church on Christmas eve, hearing and singing "Silent Night" while holding REAL CANDLES, and then walking outside at midnight while the snow is falling...and then of course you have to listen to Christmas music on the radio as you drive home on round-about routes as you look at all the Christmas lights while the kids get sleepy and fall asleep too. Yep, that is the best Christmas music that gets played.....not the individual song, but the music that reminds you of why it is Christmas and the message of Peace that it brings--the peace of being reconciled to God through Christ Jesus.

Joy to the World!