Christmas Time Is Coming

Christmas Time is coming . . . Sometimes the celebration gets totally out of hand. Anticipation swells the air, music, music everywhere. Lift the baton, sound the horn, strike up the band! A country music icon, Clint Black, once sang, “I'm looking for Christmas, a Christmas of long, long ago. with spruce, lights and tinsel and sled runners sliding on snow. “I'm looking for Christmas, a long ago Christmas of popcorn and candy, and surrounded by family singing carols we all know.” That song struck a chord of memory, causing me to search in doubt for that ‘thrown away Christmas’ Clint was singing about. Naturally, I found it; in smiling faces, joyous greetings, in star-bright lights winking and blinking row upon row. We sing of the babe in candlelight glow and the message he brought, an eternal message of peace and love.