Christmas Music
Later this week my family will travel to Savannah for, “A Christmas Tradition,” at the old Savannah Theatre downtown. It is labeled as the oldest continually operating theater in the United States, and I have to tell you that the folks who run the show do a wonderful job.
Tina and I have attended concerts and shows at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, as well as the Fox Theater in Detroit. We have gone to Christmas shows in Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Greenville and Columbia, South Carolina. We have yet to find one we have enjoyed more than the one in Savannah.
I love the music of Christmas. In fact, I still sing in the choir at our church. Our cantata will be this Sunday morning. My radios, both in my car and in my office, are set for the sounds of the season. I love the sacred Christmas music. Solid favorites like, “Silent Night”, “Away in a Manger”, “O Come All Ye Faithful”, and “O, Holy Night”. But I also want to hear Nat King Cole sing “The Christmas Song”. You simply can’t celebrate the season without it.
Music is a special language that God has given us. Music appeals to the soul, to the heart, to the emotions. When I lived in the upper Midwest it would do my heart good to hear Ray Charles croon, “Georgia on My Mind”. And my wife knows that there is to be no conversation in the car whenever Dan Fogelberg starts to sing, “Leader of the Band”. Perhaps the most fitting lyric ever sung describes my life when it comes to my dad. “My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man…”
But Christmas music is so often the best of all. We joyfully sing of Santa and reindeer and snowflakes (despite never seeing any of that in these parts), and then we hear of the quiet town of Bethlehem, the angels singing of the birth of a baby, and the great joy of the season. And we are glad. Content even.
I pray that this Christmas season will be a blessing to you. I pray that the music will bring hope and joy to your heart. And may you seek to follow the One came that you might have life, and have it more abundantly.
