Love & Christmas ... They Go Hand-in-Hand

I've had this song stuck in my head all week.  Not that that's a bad thing! :)  Just be forewarned that you might be humming along with this catchy tune now and later ... much later!  Like in February. :)



It Feels Like Christmas

It's in the singing of a street corner choir
It's going home and getting warm by the fire
It's true wherever you find love
It feels like Christmas

A cup of kindness that we share with another
A sweet reunion with a friend or a brother
In all the places you find love
It feels like Christmas

It is the season of the heart
A special time of caring
The ways of love made clear
It is the season of the spirit
The message if we hear it
Is make it last all year

It's in the giving of a gift to another
A pair of mittens that were made by your mother
It's all the ways that we show love
That feel like Christmas

A part of childhood we'll always remember
It is the summer of the soul in December
Yes, when you do your best for love
It feels like Christmas

It is the season of the heart
A special time of caring
The ways of love made clear
It is the season of the spirit
The message if we hear it
Is make it last all year

It's in the singing of a street corner choir
It's going home and getting warm by the fire
It's true, wherever you find love
It feels like Christmas
It's true, wherever you find love
It feels like Christmas
It feels like Christmas
It feels like Christmas
It feels like Christmas 


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The Spirit of Christmas Present is, by far, my favorite of the three ghosts that visit Scrooge.  I love his jolly exuberant laugh, his child-like excitement for Christmas, his lacking of anything akin to a critical heart ... and his compassion when Scrooge is faced with the truth of his own hard heart.


After this song, Scrooge is almost festive.  He has caught a glimpse of the miracle and meaning of Christmas and he asks to see some of his family and friends (if you can call them that).  The spirit obligingly takes him to both his nephew's house and the Cratchit's home ... only to have his Christmas spirit doused in the truth of his own uncharitableness.  His eyes are opened to the fact that he has not been loving, or generous, or caring, or kind, or sympathetic, or anything like the song he just sang!


This is the moment of truth for Scrooge ... to continue on in his own cold-hearted lonely way, or embrace the message of Christmas.  How could one resist the draw of "going home and getting warm by the fire", sharing "a cup of kindness" and finding both love and Christmas, too?


Not me! :)


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Thanks to ST Lyrics for the video and words to today's song.