Well here you go for anyone who hasn’t already seen this
video – which I’m assuming is very few of you considering how viral this has
gone over the past several weeks. Yes, even over here in Uganda I’m able to
keep up with some things that are going on at home:)
Like so many people, I watched this video and heard them
sing (Emily already downloaded their album, which is wonderful) and was
completely on board with their renditions. However, this song, “Little Drummer
Boy”, stood out to me in a newer light than it ever has before. Just in
listening to the lyrics, I was so reminded about how much we each relate to
this little boy in the song.
In this song, a little boy is told about a baby king who he
should go see and bring gifts to honor him. Standing before baby Jesus, this
little boy says he doesn’t have anything to bring him, so he will play his drum
for him; he “played [his] best for him.”
I am so much like this little drummer boy. What do I have to
offer Jesus? Nothing, yet everything. I don’t have crazy gifts to offer him,
but my life I can live to glorify him. Like the boy who played his drum, I can
offer my talents that I have been given to honor and glorify him. This is
humbling because whereas this doesn’t seem like much this is what he wants. He
wants us to sit humbly at his feet, acknowledging our deep need for a Savior; a
Savior, born as a baby, who lived a perfect life, and who died on the cross to
give us eternity with him.
This is the Christmas message. This is the weight of the
season and the joy that we find in the celebration of the birth of Jesus. And
this is what I have needed to be reminded of.
Since Thanksgiving, when we set up our Christmas tree and
started playing Christmas music, we have been trying to get in the Christmas spirit. We have put on
Christmas movies in the background of everything we’ve been doing, had a
Christmas craft night last week, have had music playing in every room of the
house all day everyday, wrapped all the kids presents last night, made Christmas
cards with some of the boys, and have been practicing for our Ekisa Christmas
play. And still in this 80-degree weather, I’m having a hard time and feel like
I’m just pretending it’s really Christmas time. But reminders, like this song,
point me back to the meaning of Christmas and how grateful I am for my Savior,
whose birthday I celebrate on Christmas day, despite how warm it is outside or
where I am in the world to celebrate.
“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he
is the Messiah, the Lord.” Luke 2:11
I wish I could send you some snow (******) thats the best I can do on that. I love what you wrote and the video is amazing. Thank you for sharing with everyone and reminding us all that we can be the little drummer boys here where we live. Love you Brecklyn, AD
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