The Christmas Blessing

Memory carries the first half. A couple recalls their first Christmas, "young and so in love," with "nothing to give" but each other, and the next verse brings it forward a year with a promise that "there's something you should know." What follows is a wedding-anniversary style vow, set to a holiday backdrop.

The chorus calls itself three things in turn: a Christmas blessing, a prayer, and a promise. Love, it says, will find them wherever the years lead, and "God will see us thru." Later the husband credits heaven for sending his partner and names their love "a gift from God," which keeps the song from being only sentimental. A spoken bridge widens the scene: Christmas is a time to tell loved ones how much they matter "because God first loved us."

That bridge borrows from 1 John 4:19, while James 1:17 fits the idea of a good gift from above and Numbers 6:24 offers the blessing language. NewSong included it on The Christmas Hope, and it suits couples looking for a holiday song about faithful marriage.