christmas music… creative times

i have always found it enjoyable and challenging to rearrange music/songs.   taking the essence of what was, and flipping it.  rebuilding something fresh and new upon the foundation.  it becomes thought provoking and re-challenges you.  well at least it does for me.  i find it can breathe new life into the mundane and complacent.  a fresh coat of paint maybe?  (why all the house metaphors…?)

i enjoy doing this with hymns and older worship songs, but i especially enjoy doing this with christmas songs.  i have been working on the music for our gatherings in december and it immediately brightens my day to start recomposing these christmas songs.  i find these times very creative for me.  inspiring even.

please dont misunderstand.  the creative process is indeed a fun and enjoyable thing for someone like me, but my hope and prayer is that it is just a means to an end.  a catalyst that, as said above, re-challenges us.

in this season of life it becomes easy to replace the thoughts of Christ with things that glitter and shine, and shout “ho-ho-ho” as you walk by them in the store.  we are fragile and easily distracted.  so what do we do about it? what do you do about it?  this helps me.  it reminds me and help keep me engaged in what is true.  i hope.  i pray.

a very special hymnal, one of the old ones i have collected.

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