Feels like...

(I'm not complaining... I like it warm)

Feels like

 I’ve been listening to Christmas music during the workday pretty much since I returned after Thanksgiving, much more than usual this year. This is our third winter in the Southeast and let’s be frank… it doesn’t feel like Christmas. At least not the stereotypical vision of Christmas we’ve come to expect. The weather is warm, proliferate pine trees keep the landscape green and the chance of a white Christmas is infinitesimal.  So I’m pretty sure I’m compensating with music.

“Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.” Luke 2:8-12

The first Christmas was nothing like our Hollywood stereotype either.  There were shepherds, angels, animals, a tired young couple and a baby.  No snow, no candles, no trees with lights, no cookies. It wasn’t the external factors that drove their joy. It was the simple fact that the Savior had been born.  If that was good enough for them perhaps it should be sufficient for us as well.

Joy to the world indeed!

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 7, Number 30