09 December 2012

Music of the Season – Promises to Keep

Greetings Dear Reader,

In the world of acting there is a term; “fake it ‘til you make it.”  This is used to cover the pretense of making your career sound better than it is.  In contrast there is also the thinking that says to make an attitude or habit a part of your life you can live that until it becomes part of you.  In the final song I will visit from Christmas Eve and Other Stories we have a moment of meditation.

It is so appropriate that as I write this the first real snowfall of winter is happening.  I will go to church and prepare for our Christmas open house next week.  This song reminds me that Christmas is a promise.  It is an old an ongoing promise by God to return the world to himself.  He will eventually move past our failures to a world where things are good again.

The reason it is taking so long is because he uses us to do it.  Whenever I do not live the promise of Christmas I hinder the reclamation process.  When I do live it I become closer to becoming it.  So I walk through this season singing and praying that I can be a benefit to those around me.  I desire to make Christmas last forever one moment at a time.

So even when I am tired or feel burdened I must remember the goal of my journey.  I have a long way to go and I can see the cold and snow as either a hindrance or a blessing.  To me it is always a blessing.  So now while my world is still asleep I will continue to prepare.  For Christmas and I both have promises to keep.

PROMISES TO KEEP – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Christmas time
On a cold December morning
All is calm
And the world is still asleep
Christmas lights
That have been caught without warning
Gently glitter on
Stars to wish upon
All the world is at peace

Christmas time and the year will soon be leaving
Cloaked in time till it's just a memory
Christmas stays if we don't forget its meaning
Days go quickly by
Years they multiply
And we go searching for thee

And the dream is still alive
From that first December morning
And it always will survive
As long as we can see
That the dreams we find in life
Are the dreams we tend to seek
And Christmas has its promises to keep

Star Ornaments photo
by Natascha Jones
Christmas time
And the moments just beginning
From last night
When we'd wished upon a star

If our kindness
This day is just pretending
If we pretend long enough
Never giving up
It just might be who we are

POSTLUDE:
And so it's good that we remember
Just as soon as we've discovered
That the things we do in life
Will always end up touching others

So from a fading neon star
Somewhere shining in the night
We find a father far away
Now reflecting in its light


Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."

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