The Reason For The Season
Words & Music by Michael Schroeder
Copyright Worldwide Impact Publishing (ASCAP)

1. As I walk on a winters night.,….the snow is falling down.
There’s decorated Christmas lights on every street in town
At the Mall all the signs say sale, …There’s trees and mistletoe
And for a moment I forget,…What all the world should know.

Chorus:

That the reason for the season,…isn’t lights or gifts we gain.
It isn’t Santa, wreaths, or stockings,…or trees or candy canes
Oh the Reason for the Season,  Is for God so loved he gave,
His one and only son,…. So that I'd be saved.

2. As I walk past some office lights,...... there’s parties all around.
We celebrate,   yet miss the point,…  of what it’s all about.
And I think how could I forget,…. With all the sins I’ve sown.
This baby child’s the greatest gift,….the world has ever known.

Chorus: 

Oh the reason for the season,…it isn’t lights or gifts we gain.
It isn’t Santa, wreaths, or stockings,…or trees or candy canes
Oh the Reason for the Season,  Is that God so loved he gave,
His one and only son,…. So that I’d be saved.                                                                                          

   Bridge:
                     Will I remember,……..never to let go,   
         And keep the Christ in Christmas,…..every where I go. 

Chorus:

That’s  the reason for the season,…it isn’t lights or gifts we gain.
It isn’t Santa, wreaths, or stockings,…or trees or candy canes
Oh the Reason for the Season,  Is for God so loved he gave,
His one and only son,…. So that I’d be saved.                                                                   

His one and only son,…. So that I’d be saved