let's fill the room

Christmas Eve has always been my favorite night of the year for many reasons. Not only am I around the people I love most in the world and surrounded by my church family as well, but sometimes I get to sing one of the best Christmas carols, "O Holy Night" at the end of the service. For the past few years, I have sung while the candles were being lit. I have been able to watch the light being passed from one person to another as it gradually works its way back to fill the entire room with candle light and it just might be my favorite part of Christmas.

Yeah, the 48 dozen cookies that we made were great, as was the 4 hour opening presents event on Christmas morning, and the feeble attempts Abbey and I made to play Christmas carols on the piano were possibly some of the most humorous times I have ever had, but those candles make me think. Imagine if we were able to touch people like those candles do. If we show Christ's love to one person, were that light to one person, that one person might just show it to someone else. No, it's not profound and I know this concept isn't new, but this time it made me want to be that light more than it ever has. Sometimes the candle just won't light, and sometimes it blows out, but we have to at least try to fill the room. We are called to fill it, and trust me, the end result is worth it. This Christmas Eve, I got to see a glimpse of what it might look like.

"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin... Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble." 1 John 1:5-7, 1 John 2:10

I hope and pray you all had a wonderful Christmas! God Bless.