Here begins the first in a series of Christmas related blogs! (I'm back by the way after a long hiatus!)
I LOVE Christmas! Everything about it is a celebration as we get ready for Jesus' entrance into humanity. And you know what I love? Christmas songs. I love Christmas music!
The thing I've noticed this year though, is that a lot of the songs that I hear on the radio are sad songs! Take for example the one I heard as I was coming back to school this past weekend. It was a song saying how sad the children would be this Christmas because Daddy was shot in the war. Another one was saying how this Christmas all we'll have is heat because Mama lost her job in the recession. This is too sad to make up!
And it's not just newer songs that have sad lyrics. "I'll be home for Christmas", "Christmas Shoes", and "Blue Christmas" all give sobering tones to a celebration that should be just that: a celebration! Try singing "Jingle Bells" after singing about little Johnny's dog that won't be getting the operation he needs for Christmas. While I might just have made that up, I wouldn't doubt there is a song about that too!
This Christmas, don't let songs take away from the greatness that happened on that Christmas day. Like a new king's coronation is accompanied by wide spread celebration and praises, so too should our King's entrance be marked not with sadness, but with joy and jubilation!
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Now this is a Christmas song!
