Christmas Day is behind us now. The constant Christmas music on the radio is done for the year and we are back to regular programming. I think I must have heard the song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”* at least 100 times over the last weeks. Every time I heard that song two lines stood out.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas / Let your heart be light / From now on, our troubles will be out of sight / Have yourself a merry little Christmas / Make the Yuletide gay/ From now on, our troubles will be miles away
Can you guess which two lines had me thinking? “From now on, our troubles will be out of sight” and “From now on, our troubles will be miles away” are the two. Really?
I don’t know about you, but I woke up this morning after Christmas Day with pretty much the same troubles I went to bed with last night. They are not out of sight nor miles away! Christmas Day changed not a one.
And yet, Christmas changed everything. God provided a simple solution for my greatest of all trouble, my relationship with Him. In the giving of the Son, God provided salvation and peace with Him. Now I know that whatever troubles I have, they are temporary, and that He will shoulder the burden of them (if I let Him). So maybe the songwriters are right after all … our troubles are out of sight and miles away. Good news of great joy!
Thank you, Father, for taking the greatest burden from me. Amen.
Wonder of wonders!
*Lyrics Ralph Blane and Music Hugh Martin
