OUR THEME on this website, "I Am So Glad when Christmas Comes", is drawn from a Norwegian children's carol titled "I Am So Glad Each Christmas Eve." Thank you to The Cyber Hymnal for the following lyrics. Our hymnal contains a slightly different translation that we sing during the Christmas season.
I Am So Glad Each Christmas Eve
I am so glad each Christmas Eve,
The night of Jesus' birth!
Then like the sun the Star shone forth,
And angels sang on earth.
The little Child in Bethlehem,
He was a King indeed!
For He came down from heaven above
To help a world in need.
He dwells again in heaven's realm,
The Son of God today;
And still He loves His little ones
And hears them when they pray.
I am so glad on Christmas Eve!
His praises then I sing;
He opens then for every child
The palace of the King.
And so I love each Christmas Eve
And I love Jesus, too;
And that He loves me every day
I know so well is true.
By Inger Marie Lycke Wexelsen, 1859;
translated from Norwegian
by Peter Andrew Sveeggen, 1931
