The Christmas concert at the Chapel has been glorious with the range of music from children's voices sweetly singing of the sincere simplicity of the Savior to the grandeur of God and His great plan for redemption and restoration that would be fulfilled through Emmanuel. One favorite song for me was the spiritual, "Sweet Little Jesus Boy". It featured a solo by Kaare Loftheim, accompanied by the choir and violinist, Carolyn Kluge. I have known Kaare for some time and he has much experience in Colonial Williamsburg as a skilled woodworker. He has a rich and warm baritone voice and the tones that came as he sang were mellow, like the sound you might imagine coming from a fine recording being played through a hand crafted music box fashioned meticulously by a woodworker and crafted in a blend of soft and hardwood. The song is really about all of us who have found somewhere down life's road that we didn't recognize Jesus properly at first. We had mistakenly thought He was a baby in a manger scene in a far off place and now we know that He is the Lord come down from Heaven to save us and to know us personally. Kaare's voice, at once strong and rich while also measured and soft, was an apt picture of the grace and strength and patience of Jesus. He came as a babe because He came to share our experience and we are reminded that we also need a fresh birth to see Him... as He was... and as He is.
"Sweet little Jesus boy,
Born long time ago,
Sweet little Holy Child,
We didn't know who You was."
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