Behind Day 4 of my advent calendar is
CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS WAITING TO BE FILLED
A fanfare please, for the worlds greatest Christmas one liner…
‘For Christmas this year I’ve bought my wife a wooden leg. Don’t worry though, it’s not her main present, it’s just a stocking filler!’
I don’t know about you but there are only a few ‘main’ presents that I can still remember receiving as a child. There was the gerbil (obviously), the Wings LP, ‘Venus and Mars, (don’t ask) and a game called Logacta which was a football game played with dice designed for people who had no friends!
But despite my desperately wanting each and every one of them at the time, none of them seem very important to me now. Curiously though, the gift that was very much a part of every childhood Christmas, but at the time did not interest me that much, grows ever more precious to me as I get older.
It’s great to get presents and I still hold out some hope that this year I might finally be the happy recipient of the Scalextrix Set or Scooby Doo Shaker Maker kit that I never had as a child, but none of these will be the main present that will be offered me again this December 25th. In fact, were I to receive either of the aforementioned items, they would, whilst welcome, be nothing more than Christmas Day fillers and quite possibly a distraction from the greatest gift of all.
And so, if I am to be disappointed once more by the absence of these items from under the tree on Christmas Day morning, I will nonetheless be more than content with the good news of God’s inexpressible gift [2 Corinthians 9:15] – namely the birth of the Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from God above. [James 1:17]. And most wonderfully of all, because of his great love for the world, God gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life’ [John 3:16] ‘For [though] the wages of sin is death…the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. [Romans 6:23].
And to my mind, main presents don’t any get better than that.
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In recent years Michael Bublé has been a regular part of our Christmas – so much so that our old dog Barney was once inspired by him to sing his own version of ‘Santa Baby’. I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you search hard enough you may find a video of his performance in the darker recesses of the internet. If I were you though I’d content yourself with this photograph of him in his Christmas garb…
… and stick with Michael Bublé’s significantly superior version. In it he lists all the things he’s hoping Father Christmas will bring him this year. But, I ask you, should anyone really refer to Santa Claus as ‘Dude’?
No, I didn’t think so either!
Previously from ‘A Christmas Countdown’:
To read ‘A Christmas Countdown – Day 3’, click here
To read ‘A Christmas Countdown – Day 2’, click here
To read ‘A Christmas Countdown – Day 1’, click here
Related posts:
To read ‘Something to feast your eyes on’, click here
To read ‘John 3:16’, click here
Some musings 
Like a good tweed beautifully woven! Brilliant, thank you
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Thank you – appreciate your comment. Hoping you and your wife are well and looking forward to celebrating Christmas
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