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."