I imagine the same angel that spoke to Mary about her upcoming pregnancy, and Joseph about supporting Mary in her pregnancy was probably the same angel that made the announcement to the shepherds that the baby was born. I often wonder how an angel is chosen to be the one to make such announcements.
Here is a personal disclosure. I love to sing. But I am not at all good at singing. In fact, I am so bad at singing my baby daughter cries every time I sing. I am not offended, I think it is kind of funny that she is so young and already knows how horrible I am. My poor other kids have grown up with me singing to them every night, and they are just trained to think I am good, they have no idea how bad I am. But I like to think, that in the Pre-earth life I wasn't so bad at singing, and I like to pretend that maybe I was part of the heavenly host singing about the birth of the Savior.
Anyhow, to celebrate the angel I would love to take my family Christmas Caroling, but that is WAY out of my comfort zone, think if the 18 month old cries, what adults would do when they heard me sing, I would be publicly shamed. So instead, we sing every Christmas Hymn we can think of this night. And then for the rest of the month we sing a song or two at night when we say our family prayers. I think this is one of my favorite traditions.
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