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Faith Topics
Christmas Carols for Your Kids
Everyone has a favorite Christmas tradition, and for us, it's the singing of carols. Christmas just isn't, well . . . Christmas unless we're happily harmonizing on an old carol, belting out the words at the top of our lungs. The velvety richness of musical notes and the beauty of time-honored words are like presents piled high under the tree. We just can't wait to open them.
The Creator of the world chose the music of angels to usher in the first Christmas. And the music of the carols is still introducing us to the best part of the season.
Whatever else might change, the arols we sing at Christmas remain the same throughout the years. They are beloved for that very reason. Carols never date or sound old-fashioned. Instead, they fill our anxious hearts with peace. They bring us joy.
We hope these hymns and the deep meaning of their message become part of your family's Christmas tradition. As you pass them on to the children you love, may you, too, sense the joy of creating a treasured Christmas memory that will warm your hearts for years to come!
All is calm, all is bright.
— Joni Eareckson Tada and Bobbie Wolgemuth
Adapted from Focus on the Family's new book Christmas Carols for a Kid's Heart: Hymns for a Kid's Heart, Volume Three by Joni Eareckson Tada and Bobbie Wolgemuth, copyright 2004. Used by permission of Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois.
Also consider sharing with your kids the meaning behind the lyrics to The
Twelve Days of Christmas this year.
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Volume 3 of the Hymns for a Kid's Heart
series is accompanied by a full-length CD featuring orchestration
and children's ensemble.
Share
this collection
of timeless Christmas carols with the children you love.
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