A Breakfast Serenade
For 27 years, Ray and I have enjoyed the music our son John creates from the guitar he received for Christmas 27 years ago. We cherish the memory of the moments we relished yesterday while he serenaded his mom and dad at New Year’s Day breakfast.
John had chosen four songs of faith, including “There’s a Song in the Air.” Josiah Holland wrote “There’s a Song in the Air” as a poem in 1872. John had written music for the poem.
There’s a Song in the Air
Josiah Holland, 1872
There’s a song in the air! There’s a star in the sky!
There’s a mother’s deep prayer and a baby’s low cry!
And the star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!
There’s a tumult of joy o’er the wonderful birth,
For the virgin’s sweet Boy is the Lord of the earth.
Ay! The star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!
In the light of that star lie the ages impearled;
And that song from afar has swept over the world.
Every hearth is aflame, and the beautiful sing
In the homes of the nations that Jesus is King!
Ay! We shout to the lovely evangel they bring,
And we greet in His cradle our Savior and King!
Let’s pray that in 2025 the inhabitants of our homes and all the homes of the nations will be singing all year that Jesus is King!
God be gracious to us and bless us,
And cause His face to shine upon us—Selah.
That Your way may be known on the earth,
Your salvation among all nations.
Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy;
For You will judge the peoples with uprightness
And guide the nations on the earth. Selah.
Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
The earth has yielded its produce;
God, our God, blesses us.
God blesses us,
That all the ends of the earth may fear Him.
Psalm 67