In a season where I moved from inner cities into the mountains of Kentucky, this song resonated in so many ways with me. It’s a song about no one being left out from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As the hymn goes, even the shepherds were made aware of the moment Jesus was born. Imagine being in the middle of nowhere and angels appearing in the sky alerting you to the birth of a Savior.
Read MoreThis carol always leaves me wondering why God chose Bethlehem for his only Son to be born in. Author and Bible teacher Liz Curtiz Higgs in her book The Girls of Christmas says that at the time when the angel Gabriel visited Mary in Nazareth, Mary was barely 12 years old and Nazareth had about 100 people living there.
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