my new favourite Christmas song

Anyone who knows me will know that I find Christmas music to be annoying if I here too much of it. What I have been learning lately is it is not so much that I do not like Christmas music, but that I get bored with or tired of most Christmas songs that are frequently sung. If it is a song that is not as popular or newer or different in some way, then I actually do not mind listening to Christmas music.

On that note, I have had Downhere's Christmas CD playing at home for a couple of days and there is one song I keep listening to again. The lyrics just grabbed me when I heard it tonight and I have been thinking about them as I continue to listen to.

Gift Carol

Under the tree lights

All wrapped and labelled

Each one with a dear one in mind

Day's ever nearer

We're all the more eager

To see what, that morning, we'll find

Heaven gave the first time

There's a gift marked for us

By the angel chorus

Not in sparkly paper

But a lowly manger

Sealed in hopeful promise

For every doubting Thomas

From God, with love to all mankind

Under the startlight

Laid in a stable

God, with His dear ones in mind

Given the Savior

Soon to deliver

The brightest new morning you'll ever find

When heaven gave the first time

There's a gift marked for us
By the angel chorus

Not in sparkly paper
But a lowly manger

Sealed in hopeful promise

For every doubting Thomas

From God, with love to all mankind

It was the chorus and being drawn to dwell on the incredible gift that it is that made me stop to pause. Ultimately the gift of Christ was the best gift we could be given. May that be what we focus on this Christmas season.