{"id":32591,"date":"2021-11-05T04:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T10:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32591"},"modified":"2021-11-05T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:22:07","slug":"when-we-seek-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/when-we-seek-him\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Seek Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>When We Seek Him<\/em> is a brand new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> song from songwriters Shawna Edwards and Angie Killian. The song is part of several new offerings in 2021 that spread a Christ-centered message of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. This song has more than 10,000 views in less than 24 hours online:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XGcrMbx0K1c\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Angie Killian, who has released another <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> song we will feature soon, tells MyMerryChristmas.com how this song evolved:<\/p>\n<p><em>About a year ago, I was thinking about the Wise Men and how far and long they journeyed to spend such little time with the Christ child.  These words came to my mind, &#8220;If miles lay between us, would I walk to Jesus?&#8221;  And then directly following that thought, I had the realization: He reaches our reaching and comes where we are.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is ponderous to consider the part of the Magi in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> story.<\/p>\n<p>Described only as &#8220;wise&#8221; men from the East little is actually known of exactly who they were or precisely how many they were. What is known is that they had a clear understanding of who the Baby Jesus was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> history has distorted the part of the Magi in the Nativity story with many depictions showing them with Mary and Joseph shortly after Christ&#8217;s birth. The Bible instead conveys their story as a more than two-year long journey &#8211; one of faith, determination and seeking after him. The children convey their lesson through these simple, brilliant words of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>His light shines inside me,<br \/>\nLike starlight, it guides me<br \/>\nCloser to Him everyday.<br \/>\nIf miles lay between us,<br \/>\nthen I&#8217;d walk to Jesus<br \/>\nO&#8217;er mountain and desert,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d follow that star.<br \/>\nBut He doesn&#8217;t ask us to journey so far<br \/>\nFor He will be with us wherever we are<br \/>\nWhen We Seek Him<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DerekAngie2020-1531.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DerekAngie2020-1531-177x300.webp\" alt=\"Angie Killian\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DerekAngie2020-1531-177x300.webp 177w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DerekAngie2020-1531.webp 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a>Angie explains the children singing the song:<\/p>\n<p><em>In the video the little stars that the children write on and place on the tree are filled with ways that they seek the Savior; their answers were so profound, and I loved them.  We had some typical answers, like &#8220;praying,&#8221; &#8220;reading the scriptures,&#8221; and &#8220;keeping the commandments,&#8221; but we also had some really thoughtful ones like, &#8220;in nature,&#8221; &#8220;through music,&#8221; and &#8220;by being kind to others.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And who are these kids? They are talented, local children from the Wasatch Front area of Utah joined by Angie&#8217;s own six year old daughter, who opens the song.<\/p>\n<p>This song is not yet available on iTunes, Amazon or other online marketplaces but will be soon. The mp3s, performance tracks and sheet music are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angiekillian.com\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Angie&#8217;s website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see more of the work from these talented songwriters we encourage you to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/shawnaedwards\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Shawna&#8217;s YouTube Channel<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AngieKillianMusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Angie&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When We Seek Him is a brand new Christmas song from songwriters Shawna Edwards and Angie Killian. The song is part of several new offerings in 2021 that spread a Christ-centered message of Christmas. This song has more than 10,000 views in less than 24 hours online: Angie Killian, who has released another Christmas song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":298,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[907,521,517,478,506],"class_list":["post-32591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-angie-killian","tag-jesus-christ","tag-magi","tag-one-voice-childrens-choir","tag-shawna-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}