Christmas 04

December 25th, 2004
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I hate it how I don’t love Christmas as much as I used to. Maybe it’s the commercialism or how I just look forward to there not being any school. Regardless, it’s just not the wake-up-at-6-to-open-presents exciting. Or maybe I’ve matured. Christmas is so much more to that… and I can’t really explain it without babbling on and on about its importance.

But last night… Friday when we had the church hot pot potluck thing, we sang some songs and then Grant read the passage from Luke on Jesus’s birth. I think we’ve all read that passage a million times… and although it’s the basis of the entire gospel and our entire faith, we never really give it second thought. And so I’m listening and kind of not paying attention, and when Grant gets to the angels appearing to the shepherds in the field, it just so happens that Luca makes his way to the stereo and out bursts Handel’s Messiah. It was awesome. Something so simple, so unexpected, but it was so timely… God really uses children.

Man… how many years have I really not given much thought to Christ’s birth. I think a large part of me only focuses on Jesus’s kingship… and nothing more than that. It’s time to return to the basics, to return to how he came to Earth, why that specific way, and why I believe in this awesome miracle.

By the way… I think it’s time that I actually work on this front page a bit. Heh. Merry Christmas.

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