Merry Christmas

Despite the madness and uncertainty in the world, the Christian world is pausing for Christmas, the second holiest of days on the calendar. The pagan world may have initially sanctified this day as a celebration of the Winter Solstice, but throughout time it has come to signify the birth of Christ. That is how we mark it, that is how we celebrate it.

I am sure His birth was never as dramatic as we have made it look in our imaginations. There were no choirs, no decorations, and none of the other things we use as tools of celebration. But somewhere, some place, in the City of David, in a stable, was born a child that would redeem the world someday, saving the people from their sins. There was a moment in time, there was a reality.

And despite the absence of these things, on that day somewhere, some place, there must have been a heavenly host of angels, who knew the significance of that moment in time even though the world did not. If we could have heard them at that moment, this is no doubt what they would have sounded like:


THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR

Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Once In Royal David's City
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night





Handel's Messiah




THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The First Noel




THE ST. OLAF VIKING CHORUS

Oh Holy Child




CHARLOTTE CHURCH and PLACIDO DOMINGO

O Holy Night




From the Sunsett Family to your family, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas.