Advent Re-Tradition
November 9, 2008
How did Christmas ever become this machine?
Over last couple years I find myself struggling between my hectic schedules, this money making machine, and casualness of evangelical culture to experience the awe of Christmas. Often times, the season passes, and I feel as if I missed it. This is a holy season. It should be fill us with awe and wonder. Time goes by so casually that we dont notice it. If we ignore lifes rythyms we will miss the significance it means to give us.
A few years ago, while making my own fatherly contribution to this consumer machine I had a revelation. Right there in the seasonal isles of Rite Aid I realized that the Christmas music that was playing was in every way Christian music. It wasnt just feel good music but it was sound in doctrine. Suddenly, the music which I despised from being played before Thanksgiving became holy in the middle of Rite Aid.
