I had the amazing opportunity to hear the Gloria tour last week. If you haven’t picked up the CD yet, do not hesitate to do so.
One of the more unique songs was ‘Love Came Just In Time’ featuring Taylor and Alathea. It is now one of my new favorite Christmas songs.
Here’s the ’story behind the song’.
Mandee Radford of Alathea (on ‘Love Came Just In Time’):
The night before our songwriting day I was trying to think of waiting for Christ to come, and the line came to me ‘when everybody’s looking for a sign, love came just in time.’ I talked to Cristi [Johnson] about that, and she and I looked up in the Bible the story in Luke 2 about Simeon and Anna. Simeon was a priest and Anna was a prophetess who spent their whole lives at the temple. They knew they weren’t going to die until they saw the Messiah. I thought, ‘There’s no better picture of anticipation and waiting for Christ than what they went through their whole lives, living that out.’ I was really touched by this story about Anna. She was an 84- year-old widow. She had been married as a young woman for only seven years when her husband died. She spent the rest of her time at the temple praising God and waiting for the Messiah. Her tired, old eyes got to see her salvation and ours. Her story isn’t just the story of the day that Mary and Joseph came to the temple with Jesus, but the story of all the days that led to that one. Day after day of hope and belief that love would come, and He did.
Find out more about this song and others at http://www.gloriachristmas.com
