As I stated last week, many exciting things happened during my absence from my blog.
In my time away from my blog, my first CD came out.
It was a fun project. We recorded it in front of a packed standing room only crowd at the Rhinestone Wedding Chapel on historic Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. The Rhinestone Wedding Chapel is the only place in middle Tennessee you can have a Las Vegas style wedding.
I am taking a second day to honor Elvis’ birthday. I will have to admit that I have not been a true Elvis fan for that long. I’ve always liked Elvis because he was an icon birthed from Pop Culture.
Late one night back in the summer, I couldn’t sleep. I pulled out my Kindle, and I stumbled across the film Elvis On Tour. If you haven’t seen it, it follows Elvis on tour during a concert series in the early 1970s. For the record, the “jumpsuit” comes in many colors.
The thing that captured me was Elvis’ humanness. It fully dawned on me that Elvis was a real man. Through time, that aspect of his personality became lost under the “Elvis” persona of pop culture.
On top of all that, Elvis is the ultimate entertainer!
I just wanted to take another opportunity to tip my hat to the King of Rock and Roll.
If you haven’t seen the film and you’re a borderline Elvis fan, watch it! You’ll cross over.
For the past few posts, I’ve shared my distaste for the yuletide season. You will have to admit that we have gotten a bit ridiculous as it concerns Christmas. We have blowups of every cartoon character imaginable. This year we were able to add a miniature Graceland to our Christmas village.
Really, Christmas overloads the senses. We have flashing lights, loud music, men and women ringing bells for good causes, throngs of shoppers filling the malls like cattle shoots. This has become the mutation of the holiday.
In reality, Christmas started so unassumingly.
Though my dislike of the Christmas trappings, the meaning of Emmanuel has become real to me this Christmas season.
However many thousands of years ago, two unassuming and unsuspecting, normal, everyday, run of the mill people welcomed the savior of the world in a stable. Emmanuel, God with us.
That night, without pomp and circumstance, the God that created the universe. The God that placed each star so delicately in the sky, and named them accordingly became flesh. He became a baby that pooped and sneezed and “snoted”. Jesus, the Savior, had to learn how to walk and talk and play well with others.
It was the first time in the history of the world that the Creator became a part of the creation so that He would know the human experience intimately.
I love this flash mob video. In a mall food court, where life is normal for the season, people of all races, colors, and creeds proclaim the birth of the savior. Singing, what seems to be, an impromptu performance of the Hallelujah Chorus.
This video reminds me of what the night was like when Christ was born. People were going about their business. They were shopping. They were eating and talking. They were living their everyday lives with no idea or conception of what was happening. The Savior of the world was born on a pile of hay in the middle of nowhere wearing scraps.
I hope that you can take a moment, out of the hustle and bustle of what has become the norm of Christmas, to reflect. I hope that you will think about the child that was born that was fully God and fully man. I hope that you can ponder the enormity of our miniscule lives without the flashing lights, the obnoxious yard displays, and the excessive consumerism.
It all started with a loving God and a crying baby.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
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This is one of my favorite Christmas songs. I hope everyone’s holiday is restful!
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