Mary Did You Know?

A story about the first Christmas song (6-minute read)

Music and songs are a big part of the celebration of Christmas. Have you ever wondered about the very first Christmas song? What if it was sang months before the baby Jesus was even born? It’s an interesting story that we will explore in this special Christmas article.

In the first century a girl named Mary set out on a long and potentially dangerous journey. She couldn’t have been more than 12 or 13 years old at the time. The course of the trip would have her descending over a thousand feet into a river valley, crossing the river once or twice and then following a narrow winding road up a steep mountainside, climbing from below sea level to over two thousand feet above it. The journey would take about 9-10 days to cover more than 80 miles.

She likely went with a caravan of people and probably traveled most of the way on foot. Making the trip even more difficult, Mary was pregnant, but she didn’t dare let anyone know it. If people found out it would cause too many questions that she did…