My daughter, Anna, had a school program a couple of days ago. For about fifty minutes, we listened to songs -- mostly songs of Christmas, as youthful voices were raised in praise of the Son of God.
I, of course, watched Anna as she sang. Her face was animated as she sang for all she was worth. I could hear her voice clearly rising with the others in earnest (if not always totally melodic) song.
As I watched her and the other sing, I realized that praise does not have to be beautiful. Psalm 100:1 says that we should "Make a joyful noise to the Lord..." Truly, if our singing to God had to beautiful, it would leave out a good chunk of those of us who would love to have beautiful singing voices, but struggle with the high notes, the low notes, and even at times some of the in-between notes.
This is where children have it over us adults. Because they don't know that they are bad singers or, good singers, they just know that they have a heart full of praise of God that has to be let out. And that, more than anything else is what God hears when we sing to Him.
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