HO HO HOLY NIGHT

Merry CHRISTmas and Happy HOLYdays to one and all. Is your Christmas experience seeming to be a little frazzled like Art Carney on an episode of The Twilight Zone.? Has all of the JOY gone out of your WORLD? Is your SILENT night as NOISY as a gift buying FRENZY at a last minute buying spree where there are 500 people standing in line for 1 Wi?

In this politically correct charged world...where Kwanzaa is elevated to Christmas status... PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN...rests with mankind's ability to get along. The problem is...that on planet earth...the world revolves around individual, ego centric, It's All About Me Baby mentality...and not the REASON FOR THE SEASON.

When you pull off the mangy fake beard...peel away the facade of fuzzy feelings...look below the surface of the Jingle Bells that are really the bells of the CASH REGISTER jingling as people buy gifts for people they don't like anyway...and you strip away the false sentiments of well wishers who wish you would go away....what do you have?

You have a whole in the soul that can only be filled with God. It's kinda like eating everything in sight...and still come up hungry. Nothing satisfies that craving that you have...but at least your are full.

This season...feed the SPIRITUAL HUNGER with THE REASON FOR THE SEASON... the coming of the SALVATION FOR THE WORLD...a small, insignificant country...in the dark of the night...in the anything but SILENT NIGHT...in an animal stall filled with smells of manure instead of the smell of a goose cooking wafting from the kitchen into your warm living room.


When I was growing up...I would put on Elvis' Christmas Album...and crank it up. It was a mixture of traditional Christmas Carols, secular Christmas songs, and rootsy, blues songs. The big controversy in 1957-58 was people were shocked when Elvis sang the Bing Crosby classic...White Christmas. Elvis would draw out the word I and make it a multi-syllabic word. The vocal inflections would slid in an out of range and people went nuts.

Well it's Christmas time pretty baby and the snow is falling on the ground
Well it's Christmas time pretty baby and the snow is falling on the ground
You be a real good little girl...Santa Claus is back in town

Hang up your pretty stockin's...turn out the lights
Santa Claus is coming down your chimney tonight

Ain't got no slay with reindeer...no sack on my back
You gonna see me coming...in a big black Cadillac

It's Christmas time pretty baby and the snow is falling on the ground
You be a real good little girl...Santa Claus is back in town.

NOTE: To a seven year old boy...that was what Christmas was about...good music...a mysterious Santa Clause...and getting stuff. Aaaah...it's all about the children.

In 1976...a guy named Randy Stonehill but out an album on the SOLID ROCK label called WELCOME TO PARADISE. The album (vinyl with grooves) had two sides. Side 1: Paradise Lost (sorrow and sadness...) Side 2: Paradise Regained (...turn into gladness). It was a classic Christian rock genre'...with innovated lyrics and chord structures. Some considered it...and others like it... to be too rock for the church and to religious for the world. Songs like King of Hearts, Lung Cancer, and First Prayer were powerful reflections on the world and the hunger for God.

It also has one of my favorite Christmas Songs called CHRISTMAS SONG FOR ALL YEAR LONG...and it goes a little something like this:

I wonder if this Christmas...they'll begin to understand
The Jesus that they celebrate...is much more than a man
But the way the world is I don't see...how people can deny
The only way to save us was for Jesus Christ to die

(Chorus)
And I know, that if Saint Nicholas was here he would agree
That Jesus gave the greatest gift of all to you and me
They led him to the slaughter on a hill called Calvary
And mankind was forgiven..when they nailed Him to the tree

But most of all the children...they're the ones I hope will learn
That Jesus is our Savior...and he's going to return
And Christmas isn't just a day...AND ALL DAYS AREN'T THE SAME
Perhaps they'' think about the word and see IT SPELLS HIS NAME

(Chorus)

And I know that if Saint Nicholas was here he would agree
That Jesus gave the greatest gift of all to you and me
They led him to the slaughter on a hill called Calvary
And mankind was forgiven...mankind was forgiven
We were all forgiven...when they nailed him to the tree...
So Merry Christmas...Merry Christmas...
I wonder if this Christmas...they'll begin to understand.

NOTE: If you have been thinking about the word CHRISTMAS...and see that it spells His name...then check out Matthew 1:18-2:23 and Luke chapters 1 and 2 for details of Jesus the Christ (anointed one with the yoke breaking, burden lifting, oppression removing power)...birth.

There is only one thing worse that edging the birth of Jesus out of Christmas...and that is to keep him a little baby. He grew up...he ministered under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and manifested the will of God on earth as it is in heaven...and died on the cross in our place, shed his blood for the remission of our sins...was buried stone cold dead...and raised from the dead. His first advent was for this purpose...and there is a 2nd advent...HE'S COMING BACK. I hope you will not be putting your trust and faith in myths, fables, lies.

Have your self a Mooey Little CHRISTmas and Happy HOLY-days.

Love and Seasonal Kisses
Rodney "Santa Bows At The Foot Of The Cross" Boyd