There’s a story behind this Christmas song that I’ve never really shared.
Four years ago, I wrote a Christmas song and shared it in hopes that it would be played during our company’s virtual Christmas party.
They didn’t play it.
The feedback was that it lacked a beat, wasn’t catchy enough, and wasn’t “Christmassy” enough.
As a hopeful songwriter, comments like that tend to stay somewhere in the back of your mind. For a while, I wondered whether they were right.
So I kept the song.
Year after year, Christmas came around, and the song remained quietly tucked away.
But I never completely forgot about it.
This year, I went back to that old song and heard it differently. I could hear the choir I had always wanted. I could hear the harmonies rising on the Alleluias. I could hear the orchestra building underneath it.
And instead of trying to make it fit someone else’s definition of what a Christmas song should sound like, I decided to let it become what I had always imagined it could be.
That song is now Heaven Sings Tonight.
And there’s something very special to me about these words:
“Heaven sings and we reply.”
Four years ago, this song couldn’t find a place at one virtual Christmas party.
This year, I’m finally giving it a place of its own.
For this Christmas season, I hope Heaven Sings Tonight finds a place in your hearts. I hope you sing along with it, share it with someone you love, or perhaps even bring it to your church, school, or choir.
And if someday I hear that a choir somewhere decided to sing the Christmas song that once wasn’t considered “Christmassy enough”…
I think that would be a pretty wonderful ending to this little story. 🎄❤️
🎶 Heaven Sings Tonight
An original Christmas song by Hydee M. | Praise Beat
**Listen here:** https://youtu.be/yVz7lS8ByjQ
