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12/25/2025

DECEMBER 25 - You will conceive and give birth to a song, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end. Luke 1:31-33 NIV

12/25/2025

and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

12/24/2025

DECEMBER 24 - Early on in writing musicals with David Moffitt and Travis Cottrell, we started including the words “grace” and “glory” at least once in every musical. In fact the first musical we ever wrote together was called Come! In Grace and Glory. I could tell you several other connections we have to those two words, but one of my favorites how David told us that when his grandmother was in the last days of her life, she sang the hymn “I Can Hear My Savior Calling” over and over. You might think she would sing that first verse, because she surely was hearing her Savior calling her home. But instead, those who were with her said she lifted her hands and sang “He will give us grace and glory” again and again.

Later David and I wrote a lyric that said “Hallelujah, what a morning, when I reach for that nail-scarred hand, and I’m led from grace to glory, on the banks of the Promised Land.”

You can tell that our tie to that particular phrase was strong. So when we started writing today’s song, we wanted people to remember that this Christmas story that we relive and remember every year is all about celebrating that Jesus came into the world to rescue us from sin. Ultimately, it is all about His grace and His glory.

It’s Christmas Eve. Mary and Joseph are arriving in Bethlehem, and Mary is beginning to realize that the message from the angel is about to become real in a way it hasn’t been up to this day. As she communicates the urgency of their situation to Joseph, he’s beginning to wonder where they can find shelter, privacy, and maybe some help in delivering a baby into their dark world.

It’s been 2000 years, but the miracle is still just as miraculous.

Immnauel. God is with us.

He has come to give us grace. Give Him the glory He deserves.

12/23/2025

DECEMBER 23 - I came across today’s song by accident as I was listening to some other songs and my iTunes played it. Honestly it felt like God tapping me on the shoulder and saying, “Don’t forget this one.” It brand new to this Advent calendar.

Something like that happens with Christmas every year for me. I think I’m all ready. I’ve got my list of last minute things I need to do as the final countdown begins. And it all seems “do-able.” Until… a get a notice that a gift I’m giving won’t be here until January 9th. And a package for “an unknown recipient” is waiting for me at my apartment’s package room. And I remember that I need to make at least one trip to my storage unit, and to the bank, and to the nail salon… and of course, I haven’t wrapped anything. Suddenly my well-ordered Christmas plan has become crazy again.

I am an incurable list maker. I live by lists. I’m constantly coming across lists I’ve made of my plans. The thing is, God’s list doesn’t always match up with mine. In fact, it almost never does.

On His list for me today is

1. Stop and remember to spend time being grateful.
2. Pray for the people you’ve promised to pray for.
3. Don’t let sacred moments pass by unnoticed.
4. Worship the One who is the only one worthy of it.

During the month of December, at the top of my list each day is “Post the advent calendar song.” So here we go.

“He has come to heal the broken
Let blinded eyes be opened
In the power of His name
Love will be his invitation
Welcome liberalion
Our God has come to save.

Glory to the newborn king!”

12/21/2025

DECEMBER 21 - One of the things I like most about writing a musical is the opportunity to write the narration or sometimes the drama that goes with it. I enjoy the study, the planning, and the creative work of helping listeners get more enjoyment from the songs by helping them understand their context and how they fit into the narrative in a certain way. For many of the musicals I wrote with Russell Mauldin before 2020, there was one narrator whose voice was heard. His name was David Ford, and you’ll hear him at the beginning of today’s song. We laughingly called David the “voice of God” because of the beauty and depth of his booming bass voice. He had more than just the sound of his voice going for him. He always caught the vision of what I was trying to do with the narration, and he had an incredible ability to express the emotion of every line as well as a great sense of timing. Besides that, David had graduated from Baylor University (my husband’s alma mater) AND he was a St. Louis Cardinals fan. It was inevitable that we would get along great. How I loved working with him. Both David and his wife passed away during the Covid pandemic, and I sure do miss him.

“Heaven and Nature Sang” was written with Kenna West and Leonard Ahlstrum for a musical that Kenna wrote for Word Music. I was excited to write about the wonder of heaven and nature joining forces to sing about the birth of Jesus. Somehow I think the reverberations of those songs still exist in the universe somewhere.

12/20/2025

DECEMBER 20 - You may recognize today’s song because it is built around the old spiritual and teaching song “Go Where I Send Thee.” It’s also a “cumulative” song because, like “The Twelve Days of Christmas” the singer adds a number to those being “sent” with each chorus. The added number refers to a different Bible story or event. One, of course, is the “little bitty baby born in Bethlehem,” and how fitting is it that the song always returns to that baby— what could be more important! Some of the other stories are obvious and some not quite so clear. They can even change, depending on which version of the song you sing. Two is Paul and Silas, three refers to the “Hebrew children” Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego. Four alludes to the four Gospel writers, ( I love that the “four” stood at the door, getting ready to spread the good news). Five is about the feeding of the 5000, and six (when the world was fixed) is the number of the days of creation, and so on.

Because it come from oral tradition and there are many versions, Russell Mauldin and I felt there was some freedom to add our own interpretation for the musical Bethlehem Morning. Instead of our choruses accumulating numbers, the choruses refer to being sent out with hope and joy, and finally we added two verses. It’s a fun moment with a lot of energy, and hopefully it’s what will get you up and going on this last busy, busy Saturday before Christmas!

12/18/2025

DECEMBER 18 - The past few months my timeline has been filled with videos of babies doing remarkable things and carrying on grownup conversations. They’re all created with AI, of course, but they can be entertaining the first few times you see one of them. Once it’s clear that they’re all fake, I kind of have zero interest in them. The end result of all the fake stuff is that I have almost no faith in anything I see or hear online anymore. Beside, babies and little kids are incredible enough all on their own, don’t you think? (I have videos of my two little “greats” that prove it, just ask me.)

I can’t help wondering what kind of baby Jesus was. Was He an easy baby? You kind of imagine he would be content and not fussy, but I can’t say for sure. (Maybe that’s why that line in “Away In A Manger” that says, “The little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes” has been rewritten.)

It’s fine to be curious about this, but I don’t think we “need” to know. Maybe that’s the reason the Bible tells us that Mary spent a lot of time ”pondering” everything that happened. not giving interviews about it.

Several years ago when Tim Lovelace was writing a Christmas musical for Daywind, he and Lee asked me to help them write a song from Mary’s viewpoint about what that first Christmas night might have been like. I couldn’t be in Nashville with the guys, but it really didn’t matter once we got started. Writing “Holding Her Baby Boy,” a song where we just did our best to imagine what Mary thought and felt that holy night when Jesus came into the world, was an amazing experience I will always remember, resulting in a song I will always be grateful to be part of.

12/14/2025

DECEMBER 14 - Over 300 years ago, the French mathematician and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.” The concept of a “God-sized hole” we all carry around inside us is actually much older than Pascal. The writer of Ecclesiastes, traditionally thought to be Solomon, wrote that God has “set eternity in the human heart.” And the apostle Paul wrote in Romans that every person has an innate awareness of God through creation.

We don’t have to be godless. We don’t have to exchange the truth of who made us and who we are intended to worship for a fake substitute. Even today in 2025, God wants people to turn to Him, to surrender to Him, to find the meaning of their lives and their purpose for being. At Christmas, the answer is all around us if we’ll stop long enough to focus.

Find Jesus. If you don’t know Him already, He’s waiting for you. If you’ve lost sight of who He truly is, listen to the angels proclaiming His birth and follow the shepherds as they search Bethlehem for Heaven’s gift to the world.

When you find Jesus, “You’ll Find Christmas.”

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