My darling husband Rich likes The Christmas Song.
Okay, that was original. For me it brings back memories of the movie White Christmas, and my Dad and stepmom Ellen singing all the old Christmas classics from that great movie era. I will have to admit that I’ll Be Home for Christmas, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas are great songs that I find myself singing throughout the season, just as I do The Christmas Song. But, they are hardly my favorites.
So, why would Rich pick this one, out of all the songs out there, The Christmas Song?
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
Everybody knows…
A turkey, and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight
They know that Santa’s on his way
He’s bringing lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And every mother’s child is going to spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly
And so, I’m offering this simple prayer
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although its been said many times many ways
Merry Christmas to you
After reading the lyrics, its obvious. Rich, my wonderful husband loves one thing more than anything else (excluding Jesus). He loves families. It’s his calling to be a family pastor and eventually we want to have a community center where we meet the needs of the family as a whole, not just the child, the teen, the sibling, or the parent, but where we have opportunities, ministry, and communities to the family as a WHOLE.
The Christmas Song dictates just that feeling…Christmas, more than any other holiday is a holiday about families. It’s history is based in the unifying of God with man and the birth of His son into our families. It’s traditions center around things we do with the family.
Rich loves families. He loves the ideas of families, and he loves the traditions around them. Growing up in a house filled with tradition, it is the one thing that I missed the most in my first marriage. I had to eliminate my family traditions and embrace his. Now things are different, Rich and I are building traditions with our family that will lasts for many years to come.
But more than families, this song is a song about being home. Many of us grow up in places that we could not really consider to feel like home. We don’t feel safe, we don’t feel loved or cherished, it is a place we are looking to break free from as soon as we can. Love may live there on occasion, but not on a constant.
This song is a song about the hope of the perfect home, the home we all dream of. One with the fire burning while it is cold outside – warmth and security. One where people sing songs of joy. Where clothes and comforts abound. One where food is plentiful, and children are full of hopes, dreams, and laughter. It is a song of generations binding together in the hope of the season.
Funny, when I try to imagine this type of home, I picture something from the times of Happy Days, and Leave it to Beaver. I feel as a society we are so disjointed, and forget the importance and the significance of building our homes. We try, but we get too busy to remember the simple things, the things that bring us the most peace, the most contentment, the most joy.
This season take a moment, take the time to invite safety, security, warmth, love, laughter, peace and joy into your homes. Fill the house with traditions and families, and let the love of the season overflow.
The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole
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