This is just who I am and I don’t expect everyone to be just like me but for me and others who find that Merry Christmas has meaning, I will always use those words.
Here, from my friend, Michael Schroeder, is my Reason for the Season. His song explains it better than I can.
The Reason for The Season
Words & Music by Michael Schroeder
Copyright Worldwide Impact Publishing (ASCAP)
1. As I walk on a winter’s night….the snow is falling down.
There’s decorated Christmas lights on every street in town
At the Mall all the signs say sale …There’s trees and mistletoe
And for a moment I forget…What all the world should know.
Chorus:
That the reason for the season…isn’t lights or gifts we gain.
It isn’t Santa, wreaths, or stockings…or trees or candy canes
Oh the Reason for the Season, Is for God so loved he gave,
His one and only son… So that I’d be saved.
2. As I walk past some office lights … there’s parties all around.
We celebrate, yet miss the point,… of what it’s all about.
And I think how could I forget… With all the sins I’ve sown.
This baby child’s the greatest gift….the world has ever known.
Chorus:
Oh the reason for the season…it isn’t lights or gifts we gain.
It isn’t Santa, wreaths, or stockings…or trees or candy canes
Oh the Reason for the Season, Is that God so loved he gave,
His one and only son… So that I’d be saved.
Bridge:
Will I remember, never to let go,
and keep the Christ in Christmas…everywhere I go.
Chorus:
That’s the reason for the season…it isn’t lights or gifts we gain.
It isn’t Santa, wreaths, or stockings…or trees or candy canes
Oh the Reason for the Season, Is for God so loved he gave,
His one and only son… So that I’d be saved.
His one and only son. So that I’d be saved
For those of you who would like to hear the full version, it is here:
The Reason For the Season from Michael Schroeder on Vimeo.
That’s my Reason for the Season and why I say Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas!
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