Weekly e-news December 13, 2019
Hey, everyone!
Hope you’re having an awesome, joy-filled Friday-before-the-week-before-the-Day!
I know it’s gonna be a rainy one, but on Tuesday…
I was dreaming of a white pre-Christmas!
And I woke up and it happened!
BTW, don’t you love the whistling part when Bing sings that classic?!
I made an awesome playlist compilation for the season and if you pass me on the streets and I seem to be singing…
As my Desmond says, I’m am!
I’ve got Vince Guaraldi, Nat King Cole, George Strait, Ernest Tubb, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Whitney Houston, Cece and Bebe Winans, Bing and Rosemary, the Isaacs and more!
I’ve got White Christmas, Blue Christmas, Silver Bells, I Heard the Bells, Silent Night and O Holy Night, Hark the Herald Angels and the ones we have heard on high!
I did leave one off, tho.
D’you know what the Vienna Boys Choir, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, the Supremes, Joan Baez, the Jackson 5, Neal Diamond, Ray Charles, Boyz II Men, Destiny’s Child, Bob Dylan and the Veggie Tales have in common?
They all recorded a version of “The Little Drummer Boy”!
“Why?” you ask.
I love that song…in theory.
Originally called, “The Carol of the Drum”, how could you NOT love a song about a poor but ingenious child who has nothing for the New-born King but his talent with two sticks?! Just the thought of it would make the Grinch’s heart grow three sizes!
It’s just that…
(I don’t mean to be critical at all)…
(especially at Christmas time)…
but it’s just the…it’s the…
IT’S THE “Pa rum pum pum pum”!!
You sing it THIRTY THREE times!!
You sing “pum” NINETY SEVEN times!!
I counted!!
One cool feature tho’ is that the lines don’t rhyme all the time. Some times they do, but some time they don’t!
“Mary nodded…
The ox and lamb kept time”
It works tho’ because every other line ends in “pum’!
And “pum’ rhymes with “pum” every time!
I DO love the “pum pum pum" of this little guy’s heart!
What do I give “to lay before the King?…so to honor Him? That’s fit to give our King?”
Maybe you’ve asked yourself this very question this Advent season.
What would my King want from me as a gift this Christmas?
What could you give to the One Who owns everything?
I think I know the answer!
He left some Christmas hints!
In Matthew, chapter 25, Jesus opens His arms and invites into His Kingdom those He calls “My sheep”.
“For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink…I needed clothes and you clothed Me…”
Confused, they will ask Him…
“Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? When did we see You…needing clothes and clothe You?
And He will answer, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of Mine, you did for Me.”
When you care for those who need real help, you care for Him!
Giving to them=Giving to Him!
We have had sooooo many tags taken off our “Victor’s Christmas Tree” in the Triple C lobby for the 70 orphans Victor and Suni Nandigam are raising in Hyderabad, India!
And most of those tags for providing an extremely poor widow her new sari (ie., her new clothes for the year!) are also gone!
There are a few left however!
This is your chance to buy just the perfect gift for your King this Christmas!
A gift for them is a gift for Him!
And it’ll make your heart go…
“Pum pum pum!”