Ok all you nay sayers, it's finally time for you to begin to celebrate Christmas. You were the epitome of the Grinch when the stores put out their Christmas decorations in August. You whined about how Christmas was going to "take over or overshadow Thanksgiving" Now you have no excuse. And for the record, yeah Christmas is supposed to overshadow Thanksgiving. One is about our being Thankful and diving into a food orgy. The other is about the Incarnation of God. And before you get upset with me about Thansgiivng, please read last week's post. I'm al for celebration.
The "official" beginning of The Advent season got me to thinking though. What is it that marks the beginning of the Season for you? Is it that first candle lit on the Advent …show more content…
No judging, by the way. If that's the signal for you, that's fine. After all when I was a kid there were two signals that the Season began. One was the old Norelco ad of Santa riding on a razor like a sled
Cute isn't it? Did you see what they did there? Noel, Noelco...Norelco.. anyway they only ran this at Christmas time when I was a kid. It was a sure as an Advent Calendar in our lives. But it wasn't the real signal. No it was the precurser, the John the Baptist of Christmas signals. No. Evry child knew there was a song, and one song alone that made our hearts lighter and thinking of Christmas. No, not "O, Holy Night" or even Santa Claus is Coming to Town. It was this
You watched the whole thing didn't you? Be glad I didn't put up the 10 hour loop. But as a child, before the dasy of streaming and DVD's you had one shot at seeing this. And this meant Christmas. How can you not love it? You have a kid who dances like a Zombie from the Walking Dead, the twin girls who later make an appearance in The Shining, and that cool kid in the yellow shirt who has the best understated moves of …show more content…
What about you? Is it one of the Hymns? Perhaps something a little more recent like "Mary Did you Know?" As we begin Advent togeher let me make a suggesstion for you, just to get you in the right frame of mind, for this Advent season. Harry Chapin's "The Cat's in the Cradle"
I'm not going to post it here, it's easy for you to find. And I know it seems liek the least likely Christmas/Advent song at all. But do you remember what the song is about? A Dad, who never has time for his son becuase of the busyness of his life eventually loses his son because he has "trained him up in the way he should go" The son becomes too busy for the father. It's about our not losing sight of what is important in life. Not letting the busy work of life blind us to what's important.
Sound familiar? A lot of us come into the Advent season unwillingly because all we can see is the busy work. The Tree, gifts, shopping coking baking. Oh yeah, and if we can we'll sprinkle a little Jesus in
The "official" beginning of The Advent season got me to thinking though. What is it that marks the beginning of the Season for you? Is it that first candle lit on the Advent …show more content…
No judging, by the way. If that's the signal for you, that's fine. After all when I was a kid there were two signals that the Season began. One was the old Norelco ad of Santa riding on a razor like a sled
Cute isn't it? Did you see what they did there? Noel, Noelco...Norelco.. anyway they only ran this at Christmas time when I was a kid. It was a sure as an Advent Calendar in our lives. But it wasn't the real signal. No it was the precurser, the John the Baptist of Christmas signals. No. Evry child knew there was a song, and one song alone that made our hearts lighter and thinking of Christmas. No, not "O, Holy Night" or even Santa Claus is Coming to Town. It was this
You watched the whole thing didn't you? Be glad I didn't put up the 10 hour loop. But as a child, before the dasy of streaming and DVD's you had one shot at seeing this. And this meant Christmas. How can you not love it? You have a kid who dances like a Zombie from the Walking Dead, the twin girls who later make an appearance in The Shining, and that cool kid in the yellow shirt who has the best understated moves of …show more content…
What about you? Is it one of the Hymns? Perhaps something a little more recent like "Mary Did you Know?" As we begin Advent togeher let me make a suggesstion for you, just to get you in the right frame of mind, for this Advent season. Harry Chapin's "The Cat's in the Cradle"
I'm not going to post it here, it's easy for you to find. And I know it seems liek the least likely Christmas/Advent song at all. But do you remember what the song is about? A Dad, who never has time for his son becuase of the busyness of his life eventually loses his son because he has "trained him up in the way he should go" The son becomes too busy for the father. It's about our not losing sight of what is important in life. Not letting the busy work of life blind us to what's important.
Sound familiar? A lot of us come into the Advent season unwillingly because all we can see is the busy work. The Tree, gifts, shopping coking baking. Oh yeah, and if we can we'll sprinkle a little Jesus in