The Little Drummer Boy

So I am in love with these people...in a totally non awkward way.  I just can't believe that they are doing all of this with just their voices.  WOW!  

But the song is what really got to me.  Okay, so I have heard this song a million times before...that is one thing about Christmas music, it is timeless.  I think it is because I have heard it so many times I have never really heard it.  You know, when some one says something a lot you loose the meaning.  Well that is how I feel about this song.  I think I heard it for the first time today.

So, if you don't really know me, I am a Christian.  I would love to call myself devout but sometimes I feel as though I am not.  That is a whole different post so I will get to that some other day. So I was in church when I heard this song.  I struck me as never before.

So the story line is that this poor boy has nothing to bring the baby king.  HE is a poor boy.  But he brings what he has, in this case a drum, and plays it with all his heart.

This is us perfectly.   Everyone.  From Bill Gates to that guy on the street corner.  What do we have to give a King?  A King who has absolutely everything?  What do we have to give?

That is the most amazing thing.  WE are that little drummer boy poor, broken, dirty, lost.  Yet, God doesn't ask for money or stuff, (though all these things are good to give).  All he asks us to give is our selves, our song.  

To me this is amazing, that someone who has, say, Mother Teresa would want broken me.  But, he does.  He wants all of us to play a song for him.  No matter how bad it is.  

So, all the little drummer boys, lets play our song this holiday season.  Because, to Him, that is better than any Gold, Frankincense, or Myrrh.  To Him that is the greatest gift of all