Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary for Sunday-December, 13th

deaconlwg | December 12, 2009 15:42

Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.

Over the river and through the woods.

There is an old Christmas song that has kind of got stuck in my head this past week. You too, no doubt, have heard the song before. I'm talking about the one that goes something like, "Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go."


I've heard that song all my life I reckon, but I can't ever remember having that song stuck in my head like it has been lately. It's a good little song with a catchy little tune, but the lyrics never resonated with me in the past. Not like they certainly do now.


That little song tells us about the journey to Grandmother's house at Christmas time. The expectations of goodness and sweetness that surely would be waiting there upon arrival. That song is nothing more than a tale of the joyful and happy travel time to Grandmother's house at a joyful and happy time of the year.


As a kid growing up I was always less than a mile away from my Grandmother's house. I could just walk there for all our Christmas time get togethers and family reunions. Some of my cousins and other family members had some traveling to do to get there, but not me. We lived just down the road and around the corner. So the travel time to Grandmother's house never applied to me as a kid.


That changed last week. Grandma left this world to be with Jesus  in Heaven right after Thanksgiving. Just in time for Christmas.


That's why that song is stuck in my head now. For the first time  in my life I've got some traveling to do to get to Grandmother's house. Perhaps over a river of tears. Through the woods that surely are the rest of my life. But it's to Grandmother's house I go.

 

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