{"id":1298,"date":"2010-11-02T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T14:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2010-10-27T20:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T01:49:39","slug":"discovering-the-songs-of-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2010\/discovering-the-songs-of-christmas-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Discovering the Songs of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, it’s only November – no time to be talking about Christmas.  But when you’re far away from family, you either think about Christmas early – or nobody gets a gift.  \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n
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And I know some of you are starting to think about Christmas too – which is why I decided it was time to mention, once again, Discovering the Songs of Christmas<\/a><\/i>!<\/p>\n

My Dad wrote this book, but it came out later than expected last year – too late for many people to use over Christmas.<\/p>\n

Discovering the Songs of Christmas: Meditations on Our Traditional Carols and Christmas Hymns<\/i> is just what it sounds like – short meditations on Christmas carols.<\/p>\n

The book is divided into 6 different aspects of Christmas…<\/p>\n

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  1. Anticipation<\/li>\n
  2. Arrival<\/li>\n
  3. Announcement<\/li>\n
  4. Acclamation<\/li>\n
  5. Adoration<\/li>\n
  6. Aftermath<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Each section contains several short chapters, each featuring a different Christmas carol.  All in all, there are 63 different songs!<\/i>  As an added bonus, there’s an alphabetical index of songs in the back, and a chronological<\/i> index (incidentally, the oldest song in the book is from circa 183 A.D.)<\/p>\n

    You’ll learn lots of things that you never knew about songs you’re familiar with (and some you aren’t!).  For example,<\/p>\n