Christmas Countdown: Top Hymns!!

Today marks only 5 weeks until Christmas Eve, and I am just as jolly about it as ever. So this week my countdown within a countdown will consist of my favorite hymns to hear in church at Christmastime! In case you don't know, I love hymns! They almost take me back in time to when I learned them. After hearing hymns every Sunday morning for a few years you learn to sing without the hymnal. I learned most of mine in First Baptist Church of Phenix City in a seat slightly left of center, second pew from the back, sitting right next to my grandmother. So when I hear a hymn that I don't hear often, which is mostly at Christmas since we don't hear those year round, I feel like I'm right back next to her in that same seat. And these days I wish I still was.

Sorry to get off on tangent, but Christmas is one of those holidays when many people reflect on Christmases past and fond memories of loved ones. Anyway, here's my list of Christmas hymns. I hope they remind you of a simpler time as they have done for me.

Top 12 Christmas Hymns

• 12. We Three Kings
• 11. What Child is This?
• 10. Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
• 9. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
• 8. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
• 7. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
• 6. Angels We Have Heard on High
• 5. Oh Holy Night
• 4. Go Tell It in the Mountain
• 3. The First Noel
• 2. Joy to the World
• 1. Silent Night

When I was little, I wanted to play 'Silent Night' every year for my Christmas piano recital, but my teacher wouldn't let me. Well it topped my list then, and it tops my list now. :)