What song will we sing tonight?

Can you feel it? It's in the air, it's on the wind. It's in my heart. Tonight, the Reverend told us to visit Christmas. And he said that we should have Christmas visit us. That's key, isn't it? Let it in. It was the most magical service I've experienced. Indeed, it was holy. When the service ended, the lights were dimmed low and we sang Silent Night in candlelight. A tear fell onto my cheek because the beauty and the feeling were too much to contain.

I thought about the Christmas songs of my life. When I hear them today, I hear them as if I were five or 12 or whatever age I was when a particular one was my favorite.

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, and Jingle Bells

I was a child - they were the first songs to which I could memorize the words.

Rock'n around the Christmas Tree, and Silent Night

The Little Drummer Boy, stayed my favorite for years. Bob Seger's version. And also the unique collaborative version between Bing Crosby and David Bowie.

Blue Christmas and Feliz Navidad were favorites though college.

Hymn for the Gloria, and Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Today, it's Little Drummer Boy, and O Holy Night. I reach for the volume and sing right out loud.

Still, the world is not the sweet and perfect thing in my perfect Christmas song memories, is it? Which is why this is the song I sing tonight. I say a prayer for those who are fighting for our freedom in a country that isn't, and for some reason we cannot understand, they're doing so on behalf of a country that is. That said, for all of us...

Someday at Christmas men won't be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our hearts will see
A world where men are free

Someday at Christmas there'll be no wars
When we have learned what Christmas is for
When we have found what life's really worth
There'll be peace on earth

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas we'll see a Man
No hungry children, no empty hand
One happy morning people will share
Our world where people care

Someday at Christmas there'll be no tears
All men are equal and no men have fears

One shining moment my heart ran away
From our world today
Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas man will not fail
Take hope because your love will prevail
Someday a new world that we can start
With hope in every heart

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime, Someday at Christmastime

Stevie Wonder