I Celebrate the Day

We have officially welcomed the Holiday season in apartment 2227. While this picture does not do justice for our small little tree, it is indeed magnificent. It's fiber optic, so looks awesome at night, but my poor camera apparently has no desire to help me prove that. Anyway, now that we're 17 days out (yikes!), let the festivities begin!

Enjoyed time at our church Christmas party on Sunday, and I must say, the viciousness comes out during the infamous white elephant exchange! Between a set of red candlesticks, a lantern, and a Snuggie... there was nearly bloodshed! We had a great time of food and fellowship and Christmas Bingo, and I even came home with a singing stuffed pig. Doesn't get much better than that!

So my Christmas music allowance mostly consists of Relient K's "Let It Snow, Let It Reindeer". Here are the lyrics to I Celebrate the Day, one of the songs on there that I've always liked. It follows a conglomeration of Silent Night and Away in a Manger.

With this Christmas wish is missed
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say to let You know
How much You've touched my life
Because here is where You're finding me
In the exact same place as New Year's Eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We're less that half as close as I want to be

CHORUS:
And the first time that You opened Your eyes
Did you realize that You would be my Savior?
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever?

And so this Christmas I'll compare
The things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here

To look back
And think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that
What You did
That You were born so I might really live
To look back
And think that
This baby would one day save me

And I,
I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day
Pray for you to save my life
Pray for you to save my life
Pray for you to save my life