{"id":4156,"date":"2014-12-26T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T11:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2014-12-26T12:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T11:26:49","slug":"even-when-christmas-is-over-the-light-of-the-world-is-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=4156","title":{"rendered":"Even When Christmas Is Over, The Light Of The World Is Still Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several songs written about Christmas day, but not many about the day after Christmas. So today, I went searching for something to inspire me about the &#8216;Day After Christmas&#8217; and came upon this song by <strong>Matthew West<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I was really touched by these lines:<\/p>\n<p>Even when Christmas is over, the Light of the world is still here.<br \/>\nTake down the lights and the star and the tree<br \/>\nBut don&#8217;t let this world take your joy after Christmas<br \/>\nTake joy to the world and just sing<\/p>\n<p>The hype abut Christmas Day may be over, but let&#8217;s not forget the reason for the season, Jesus Christ, who is here for eternity. Here are the full lyrics of the song. I hope it inspires you:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Day After Christmas&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here comes the letdown Christmas is over<br \/>\nHere comes the meltdown, there goes the cheer<br \/>\nBut before we have a breakdown, let us remember<br \/>\nThe light of the world is still here<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy day after Christmas<br \/>\nAnd merry rest of the year<br \/>\nEven when Christmas is over<br \/>\nThe light of the world is still here<br \/>\nThe light of the world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Come January I\u2019m ready for summer<br \/>\nThe Super Bowl\u2019s over and I\u2019ll settle for spring<br \/>\nSometimes we all need a change in the weather<br \/>\nBut it won\u2019t change the reason we sing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy day after Christmas<br \/>\nAnd merry rest of the year<br \/>\nEven when Christmas is over<br \/>\nThe light of the world is still here<br \/>\nThe light of the world<br \/>\nThe light of the world<br \/>\nThe light of the world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So take down the stockings, take back the sweaters<br \/>\nTake down the lights and the star and the tree<br \/>\nBut don\u2019t let this world take your joy after Christmas<br \/>\nTake joy to the world and just sing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy day after Christmas<br \/>\nAnd merry rest of the year<br \/>\nEven when Christmas is over<br \/>\nThe light of the world is still here<br \/>\n[x2]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The light of the world [x7]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yPaT5CIj9LA\" width=\"620\" height=\"345\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several songs written about Christmas day, but not many about the day after Christmas. So today, I went searching for something to inspire me about the &#8216;Day After Christmas&#8217; and came upon this song by Matthew West. I was really touched by these lines: Even when Christmas is over, the Light of the world is still here. Take down the lights and the star and the tree But don&#8217;t let this world take your joy after Christmas Take joy to the world and just sing The hype abut Christmas Day may be over, but let&#8217;s not forget the reason for the season, Jesus Christ, who is here for eternity. Here are the full lyrics of the song. I hope it inspires you: &#8220;Day After Christmas&#8221; Here comes the letdown Christmas is over Here comes the meltdown, there goes the cheer But before we have a breakdown, let us remember The light of the world is still here Happy day after Christmas And merry rest of the year Even when Christmas is over The light of the world is still here The light of the world Come January I\u2019m ready for summer The Super Bowl\u2019s over and I\u2019ll settle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[35,365,366],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-christmas","tag-day-after-christmas","tag-matthew-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}