Christmas Good News in 8 Notes on the Piano
- Tom Faletti
- Dec 25, 2025
- 2 min read
How much good news can you capture in just 8 notes? Take a look at this video to see. And then ask yourself: What are the “pauses” in your life that are needed to help the good news sound clearly?
“The best news in the world is found by playing a simple scale on the piano.”
That’s what Carlos Morales says his mother told him.
You know the musical scale on the piano: 🎹 🎵 Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do 🎶.
His mother told him to play it backwards, which is: 🎶 Do Ti La So Fa Mi Re Do 🎵 🎹.
Then she told him he needed to add the pauses.
Take a look at this heartfelt, 3-minute video on Facebook to see why the pauses are necessary:
The pauses in life are essential to the good news
What intrigues me is the pauses. (You need to view the video to understand what I am talking about.)
As a pianist, I know how important pauses are. It is often the pauses that make the notes sing, that give the music its power.
It is the pauses in our lives that make the good news ring out.
If our whole life was just one endless succession of good news, would we even know what good news is? If all we had to do to get more good news was to wait a minute, would we be mature people who appreciate and spread good news, or spoiled brats?
Sometimes, the pauses in life – the moments that don’t seem like good news – are essential to the overall development and revelation of the good news.
And if that’s the case, then perhaps it would make sense to thank God for the pauses too, and not just for the high notes in my life.
On this Christmas Day, may we receive the joy God offers in the coming of his Son.
And every day, may we rejoice in God’s good news, whether we are hearing the notes clearly or we are in the pauses in between.
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