Yep, it's that season again-probably my favorite holiday of the year. I love the time with friends and family, the food, the music, the decorations, and of course most importantly the fact that it is a celebration of Jesus' birth. :) As I type this, I'm listening to Amy Grant singing about a "Tender Tennessee Christmas", which is a bit amusing when I really stop to think about it. I've driven through Tennessee a grand total of two times in my life, and really have no burning desire to spend the holidays there, but I still love the song. (In case anyone really wanted to know, which I'm sure you didn't. ;)
On the topic of music, I've always found Christmas music to be some of the best worship music out there. I know not all of it falls into that category obviously, but if you stop and think about it the emphasis in many of the songs is one of joy and honor. "This, this is Christ the King!", "O Come Let Us Adore Him", "Pleased as man with men to dwell, Jesus our Immanuel". Most of it just naturally leads me to worship. I have to admit to also being a sentimental sucker for "The Little Drummer Boy." I know it is a totally fictional story, but the whole idea of a little boy giving the only thing he has still gets me every year. On a similarly random note, whenever I hear the line from "Do You Hear What I Hear?" that goes "a child, a child shivers in the cold. Let us bring Him silver and gold." I catch myself fighting to not say out loud "get the kid a blanket, for crying out loud!" (While conceding that gold would buy a very nice blanket indeed.)
This is shaping up to be a busy Christmas season for me, between finishing things out here with School of the Bible, fundraising, packing my life up to move into a dorm as soon as I get back from Christmas break...oh, yeah, and shopping for gifts, plus the rest of the normal busyness that seems to go with this time of year. I will be up in Seattle for a few weeks, spending some time with my family and hopefully seeing a few friends. There are always so many to see, and so little time to see them all.
So how do I end this rambling Christmas blog entry? All I can do is say a very Merry Christmas to everyone, and add a scripture that is probably familiar to many of you: John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life." Oh Come Let us Adore Him!
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