Day 98 (12/1 - Tues)

It's the Christmas season. And that means that I dive headlong into my sizable Christmas music collection. I could name you dozens of songs that have special meaning or associated memories, but today I want to share one that both recalls a treasured memory of a past 24/7 ugly-sweater Christmas show party AND speaks words of thrilling Truth that goes straight to the bones.

Let me know your thoughts -- what speaks out to you?



"I Celebrate the Day" -- by Relient K

And with this Christmas wish is missed
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say to let You know

How much You've touched my life

Because...

Here is where You're finding me,

in the exact same place as New Year's eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We're less than half as close as I want to be

And the first time
That You opened Your eyes did You realize

That You would be my Savior
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever?

And so this Christmas I'll compare the things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here -- !

To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That you were born so I might really live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me...

And the first time
That You opened Your eyes did You realize

That You would be my Savior
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever?

And I, I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day pray for You to save my life

So I could one day pray for You to save my life

So I could one day pray for You to save my life.