When the young Isaac Watts wrote the lyrics for Joy To The World, he didn’t intend it to be a Christmas song. Frustrated over how solemn and boring the other hymns in church were, he was challenged by his father to “write something better”. He turned to Psalm 98 and found his Joy! However, the lyrics were not written about the baby Jesus in the manger but the glorious Savior at His second coming that Christian’s have been looking forward to and still anxiously await!! Several years later, no doubt inspired by George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”, an American composer named Lowell Mason added the melody we now know and love. Because of his obvious connection to Handel’s melodic lines in the Christmas section of the Messiah, the song quickly became associated with Christmas (and aren’t we all glad it did). Inspired by this story, I decided to write a song building on Handel, Watts and Mason’s work but bringing it back to Watts’ original intent. A song about the Second Coming of the Savior!!