We Wish You a Mary’s Christmas
| Luke 1:46b-55
A merry Christmas is nice, but Mary’s Christmas was a life-changing event.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light.
From now on, our troubles will be out of sight.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yuletide gay.
From now on, our troubles will be miles away.
That little ditty — now a staple of shopping mall Christmas music — was written in 1943 by two men named Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. In 1943, “a merry little Christmas” was all most Americans could ask for. World War II was raging across the farm-fields of Europe and on the coral islands of the Pacific. Many young Americans, from communities large and small, were far from home. Some of them would never return.
Everyone knew this back on the home front, so a merry little Christmas was a modest and attainable goal — about all anyone could reasonably expect:
Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.
Through the years we all will be together,
If the Fates allow.
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