This, from “O, Holy Night,” is my favorite moment of any
Christmas song, the most beautiful lyric I can imagine, the soaring stretch of
the voice about to break—though I will say that my interpretation is not
necessarily as intended, in a religious sense.
Instead, I’m thinking like a writer (as usual) and see this
moment as acknowledging and accepting humility before something greater than
ourselves, and gratitude that there we are, in that moment, hearing those
voices, witnessing a miracle. Whether
that thing, that miracle, is a god or nature or love or the creative force or
something else altogether…well. I guess that’s why that lyric is, to me, such a
great piece of writing.
Wishing all of you happiness and joy! xoxox
