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
Labels: Christmas, Luke 2:8-11, music
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