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There are two types of people in the world: Those who immediately take their Christmas tree down the day after Christmas (or even the afternoon of Christmas itself!) and those who leave the tree up for a while, maybe even until after New Year’s Eve. Our family tends to be of the second type, but mostly because we’re simply so exhausted after Christmas that we cannot bear to think of the work of dismantling all the Christmas stuff that inhabits our household this time of year and we need a few days to recover. The first type, the take-it-down-now group, tends to be filled with people who are so done with Christmas that they don’t want to hear another carol or eat another morsel of fruitcake. They are ready to move on.
At the risk of offending the first type of person, and also at the risk of enabling the second type of person who is still putting away Christmas while starting to decorate for Valentines, on the day after tomorrow, we will speak together one last time about how some of the great non-religious songs of Christmas can teach us something about our Christian faith. There is one song, in particular, that actually builds a bridge between Christmas and what comes after. And I love this song, because Christmas, after all, is not just about one single time of the year, but about all time. We’ll sing this last Christmas song, and then put them all away until next year.
So, please read Ecclesiastes 3:1, 14-15 and Galatians 4:4-7, and we’ll listen for God’s word in my message, “Sing We Now of Christmas: Christ Throughout the Year.”
Remember: We’ll have one, single, unified worship service this Sunday, at 10:00 a.m.
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