So, there’s this comercial going around these days that has a song in it that’s stuck in my head. And I know I’ve got the lyrics wrong, but those are stuck in my head too. It goes something like…
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a great New Year
I hope there’ll be snow this Christmas
At Christmas you get what you earn
At least that’s how it goes around in my head. Now, I head to the internet to see if the reality is better or worse than what I remember and here are the results…
Emerson, Lake and Palmer “I Belive in Father Christmas”
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there’ll be snow at Christmas
They said there’ll be peace on Earth
Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell
The Christmas you get you deserve
That’s funny, in another version that sometimes runs in my head the last line was “At Christmas you get what you deserve” but it has the wrong metre, so I guess I made up the other version. Never the less, both versions (ELP’s and mine) are wrong when it comes to the end. ELP state you get the Christmas you deserve and of course, none of us deserve Christmas. My version states you get the Christmas you earn and of course (at least presently) none of us get what we’ve earned, we get (it seems at the very minimum) God’s gift of being alive, breathing the air and the more fortunate of us have a warm bed, food in our stomachs and friends and family all thanks to Him.
Well, that’s enough of my Christmas prattle for the year. In case I don’t blog too much in the next week, have a happy Christmas. Oh, and you can send my presents to Thunder Bay!
PS: I hate to explain things, because I figure all of you are intelligent enough to understand, but to avoid confusion: “none of us deserve Christmas” = none of us deserve God becoming incarnate to providing atonement for our sin. “none of us get what we’ve earned” = we’ve all earned an eternity of hell for offending an infinite God.
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