What Christmas is about

I usually listen to Shine FM (the local Christian radio station) as I drive about the city doing my job and the following song has been on a lot. The first time I heard it, of course I had a little cry and then I started complaining about how there are so many sad Christmas songs. Christmas is supposed to be about joy and happiness, not making people cry. But today, as I listened to this song again I started thinking about all of the people who have sad Christmases because they are away from family or if they are in the middle of a crisis. I thought about all of the families I see from week to week and realized that there are so many people in Calgary alone who my be experiancing exactly what this song is talking about.

This song also wanted me to say thank you to my mom. Every Christmas her and dad would go without so much so that we kids could have a good Christmas. We didn't have everything growing up, but we had the love of wonderful parents who I will miss so much this Christmas. I miss Christmas shopping with my mom and baking our favorites cookies together. I didn't appreciate all the my mom did for me when I was little but as I look back now I really don't know what I would have done without her! Thanks mom.

Please take the time to read over this song, I know that it is long and a lot of people don't take the time to read long blogs but I really think that this song will make you think about what Christmas really is.

It was almost Christmas time, there I stood in another line

tryin' to buy that last gift or two,

not really in the Christmas mood

standing right in front of me was a little boy waiting anxiously

pacing 'round like little boys do and in his hands he held a pair of shoes

His clothes were worn and old, he was dirty from head to toe

and when it came his time to pay I couldn't believe what I heard him say

Chorus: Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my mama,

please it's Christmas eve and these shoes are just her size

could you hurry, sir, daddy says there's not much time

you see mom's been sick for quite a while and I know these shoes would make her smile

and I want her to look beautiful if mama meets Jesus tonight

He counted pennies for what seemed like years

then the cashier said, "son, there's not enough here"

he searched his pockets frantically then he turned and he looked at me

he said mama made Christmas good at our house though most years she just did without

tell me sir what am I going to do,

somehow I've got to buy her these Christmas shoes

I just had to help him out and as I laid the money down

I'll never forget the look on his face when he said:

mama's gonna look so great

I knew I'd caught a glimpse of heaven's love

as he thanked me and ran out

I knew that God had sent that little boy to remind me just what Christmas is all about