What do you See, Hear, and Know?

Like most people, I love the Christmas season! We have been listening to Christmas music since Nov 1st. One of the songs I enjoy listening to is Do You Hear What I Hear? This song loosely tells the story of the birth of Jesus. It includes parts when the angels announced the arrival of Christ and the wise men.

The song was written by a husband and wife, Noel & Gloria Regney, in New York City during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. It’s incredibly descriptive lyrics are an outflow of the heightened and tense emotion of that time. The first lines came to Noel walking home through streets of Manhattan, New York as people were gripped with fear. He saw two mothers walking together, their babies in strollers in front of them. As these babies were connecting with one another, without a care in the world, and smiling at each other, these song lines began coming to him, “Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy, ‘Do you hear what I hear?’” He finished writing them when he got home, and Gloria wrote the tune.

Besides being a familiar song, it also poses three great questions at Christmas time: Do you see what I see? Do you hear what I hear? Do you know what I know?

This Sunday we will explore some of the characters in the Christmas story like the shepherds, Simeon and Anna. They all saw, heard and knew things about the birth of Jesus Christ.

What did you see this Christmas? What did you hear this Christmas? Do you know the Christ of Christmas?

Every blessing,

Pastor Barry Risto
Lead Pastor