A Christmas Hallelujah
What are your thoughts this time of year?
- Does your heart feel as dry and cracked as your hands in this Midwestern winter?
- Is your to-do list lengthening as the countdown to Christmas dings out insistently?
- Have you experienced great loss this year and the silence of your loved one’s voice crashes into every waking moment?
- Do you have a restless discontent with life as it is right now?
- Do you feel disconnected, down, even depressed?
If you’re like me, you want to be joyful. You want to approach this season with worship and praise to the newborn King. You want the howling winds of life’s disappointments to hush for a moment. You want praise to bubble forth from a well in your soul filled with joy, nourished by the One who has taken all your pain and exchanged the losses with His gentle Presence. May this precious Christmas song prime the pump.
May you let Jesus see “right through you” and let every breath drawn “be Hallelujah” and let “Jesus live His life right through you” until the Day we can sing our praises around His throne. Until that Day when all is made right, please remember, Dear One, that Jesus knows our losses and our pain. His plan is setting us free! Like hot cocoa stirred into a warm mug and sipped leisurely as one watches the snow flurrying outside, let “Hallelujah” be on our lips. May this song stir our souls and warm our hearts as we remember the arrival of a Newborn and wait for our coming-again King.
Great religious lyrics to something secular . Loved it!