May the Prince of Peace greatly enrich and bless your Christmas and holiday season.Growing up with classical music all around her, Holly began the violin at three alongside her two older siblings piano at eight, and enjoying the thrill of composing at nine. That's what I want to really dwell in this Christmas. Worth my effort, worth all risk, worth all my energy. The Lamb of God is worthy of so much more. The easiest thing to do is to do nothing. Maybe, in here, you will find encouragement too. I don't want to just watch it.Īgain, I am just preaching to myself here, exhorting myself to make Christmas more than watching movies about Christmas.
I am setting aside my fear and concerns and my fleshly desire to "stay home and watch the livestream" and I am choosing to worship with other believers in person. I am going for HIM and to honor HIM and to offer up my praise. But I am going there to WORSHIP my Lord and Savior. Tonight, for the first time since last March or so, I am taking my family to Church. I write this next thing, knowing I may get flack, but. I want to actually BE ALIVE this Christmas. I am writing this really, to preach to myself. the real Christmas story (Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2), to discuss it, to talk about and share our joy in the HOPE we have in God, and the PEACE and GRACE that have been gifted to us through the birth of Jesus, the precious Son of God, our Lord.
Not just "the show."įamily being more than watching things together.īeing more than a shared escape from our worries and troubles. We need something real, not just fantasy. I know these are extraordinarily difficult times. To TALK to each other about deeper things. to look at each other, into each others' eyes and hearts, to listen, to open up our arms. I think CHRISTMAS, especially during these difficult times, is a good time - maybe the best time - to try and BREAK OUT of that. A Charlie Brown Christmas (love all of those!) Our "traditions" now include watching A Christmas Story, Home Alone, Elf. Talking about what we "watch" is easier than sharing our hurts, or opening up to others, especially when, at this time in our culture, we are more than ever surrounded by mere acquaintances or complete strangers.Ĭhristmas, too, has become - to a large degree - about what we watch. anyway, how we relate to each other is as much or more about the things we "watch" rather than what we are actively doing in our lives. We talk as much or less about "real life" since, as a culture here in the U.S. Just some examples that come quickly to mind. Simpson trial, The LotR movies, Survivor and whatever is the "happening show right now" on Netflix. I grew up with "talk around the watercooler" being about Dallas/Dynasty, Letterman, SNL, Star Wars, Michael Jordan and the Bulls, MTV, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Beverly Hills 90210, Friends, The Real World, The Office, The O.J.
#WHISPERINGS CHRISTMAS SOLO PIANO TV#
It has really struck me this last couple of weeks how my generation (I'd say with the advent of Color TV especially) was really the first to "watch" life as much or more than to actually "live" it.Īs the decades progressed, some in the 70's, then a LOT more in the 80's and 90's, our "shared happy memories" are TV shows, sports on TV, and movies.
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