Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Building 429 - "Saving Christmas" Music Video



A few months ago, I was posed a question, “How do you plan to spend the Christmas holiday?”  I knew this year, with all of its struggles, needed a change.  Thankfully I have the best family in the world who understood this need.  So, we planned… A Christmas week-end in one of my favorite places on earth, Table Rock State Park in Pickens, SC.  In the past, we have rented a cabin for a week each summer but this was the first time we had done a winter vacation.  We spent the first day, decorating the cabin.  All the mom’s brought tree ornament ideas… baked orange slices, gingerbread men, beads, bells and buttons… you name it we did it.  

However, it quickly morphed from making tree decorations to making an entire “winter wonderland” cabin.  With homemade snowflakes hanging from every window, doorway and even the ceiling.  The kids snuck out of the living room and created name placards for each door and even a “winter wonderland” sign for the outside the cabin.  It said, 

“Winter wonderland… but it’s warm and the decorations aren’t real.” 

 It started me thinking… how many times are our Christmas celebrations just like that?  Warm and fuzzy for the world to see…. But not real.  I don’t want that.  I want real, meaningful, authentic.  



Sometimes the tinsel and the glitter
Are the seasons like a womb
They can hide away the savior
At the center of it all
Are the times that more like starlight
Burning in the winter sky
Are the curly, shining corners
To the holy land of lights

Beyond the noise
Behind the lights
Pass the chaos of December's not so silent nights
This time of year I find
A thousand signs that lead me to the child divine 
I hold Him dear 
In this heart of mine
I'm saving Christmas

In the house or at the struggle
We keep praying for some peace
While the old familiar stories
Calling out to you and me


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