Every year around Christmas time I hear the same old carols that people have been singing for decades. And it seems that, earlier and earlier, each year, all of our music stations and the mall and gas station speakers, and just about everywhere else you go that has the ability to make music, makes the same music that began to get on our nerves about December 26th of last year.
So, I love hearing fresh music. And, yes, I know, this song comes from an album that was released for last Christmas, but in the lifetime of Christmas songs it is still in its infancy. So, take a listen, and let me know what you think.
I Celebrate the Day
Relient K
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say
To let You know how much You’ve touched my life
Because here is where You’re finding me,
In the exact same place as New Year’s eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We’re less than half as close as I want to be
And the first time that You opened Your eyes
Did You realize that You would be my Savior?
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever?
And so this Christmas I’ll compare
The things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That you were born so I might live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
And I, I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day pray for You to save my life