Think Before You Sing

Earlier this week I posted about Noel and the song The FirstNoel . In there I talked about the use of the word Noel and the idea that I feel like most people don’t stop to think about what it really means and think it is more than it actually is. This idea is kind of the point for this project as a whole but I feel like sometimes we find ourselves thinking that it doesn’t really matter. And to that I want to point out Ecclesiastes 7:1-13 A good name is better than precious ointment,    and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning     than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind,     and the living will lay it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter,     for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,     but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. It is better for a man to hear the reb...

  I want to talk about the song The First Noel, the great Christmas anthem that we all sing without stopping to think about what the word noel means and if we do know what it means we do not stop to teach it to others. Here is the Definition according to google: Christmas, especially as a refrain in carols and on Christmas cards. So the chorus of the first Noel has the exact same meaning as: Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas Born is the King of Israel There are not necessarily any issues with that statement but I think we often think there is more meaning when we use the work noel instead and that is simply on the case. These issues do not stop there, let’s take a peek at the first verse. The first Noel the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay; in fields where they lay keeping their sheep, on a cold winter's night that was so deep. So we have some things to look at briefly. First again is the use of Noel. Looking at the firs...