Last evening's Wichita Symphony Orchestra (accompanied by Singing Quakers Alumni Choir from Friends University) concert was fun, though I didn't realize (never crossed my mind) until after I got there that they would be playing, pause, Christmas music. There is just something not right about singing Joy to the World with an awkward-looking Santa standing on stage with a "ho-ho-ho". Humbug. I was confused and disoriented, so I can only imagine how the young impressionable children felt! The music was also very diverse; everything from "Santa Baby" to "Silent Night" to "Carol of the Bells". The following song, "I Wonder as I Wander", is one that interested me, though I wouldn't say that I "liked" it or anything:
I wonder as I wander out under the sky
How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die
For poor on'ry people like you and like I
I wonder as I wander out under the sky
When Mary birthed Jesus 'twas in a cow's stall
With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all
But high from God's heaven, a star's light did fall
And the promise of ages it then did recall
If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing
A star in the sky or a bird on the wing
Or all of God's Angels in heaven to sing
He surely could have it, 'cause he was the King
I wonder as I wander out under the sky
How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die
For poor on'ry people like you and like I
I wonder as I wander out under the sky
