Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Sisters and a White Christmas





OK…OK… this is not Karrie, but her husband James, Jamey, Jay-mas, the dude with the Amish beard- what ever you want to call me. I love the parody Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye do of the sister act performed early in White Christmas by Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen. This movie and the “sisters” song has always been part of my wife’s family culture and if you got to know her and her three sisters you would understand why. For me, and probably my three brothers in laws, we can resonate with Danny and Bing as we can only watch from the outside and can’t completely comprehend the depth of connection they have for one another. We don’t completely get it but like Danny and Bing we have learned to enjoy it.

I do appreciate it and I love it that these relationships are part of my wife’s life; it makes up a good part of who she is. The relationship between these sisters makes me smile. And so I wanted to post these videos for my wife and her three sisters. Through good times and bad you four are always there for one another. I can’t think of many other things that lives out the message of Christmas any better than that.

Jesus himself was born on Christmas day, being God he still was not ashamed to be counted as a brother among all of humanity. He sticks with us not only through the joy of life but also the sorrow, hardship, trials, injustice, and sin. Dreaming of a white Christmas seems so appropriate as the death and cold of winter is somehow transformed into something beautiful. Jesus truly brings us a white Christmas and through him we find hope for life and beauty among even the shadow of death and despair. What majesty we can find in Jesus as the hush of a winters snow brings a sense of peace to even that hardest of winters.

I see Jesus doing just that in the lives of these four sisters even today so I want to thank him for these sisters and for a White Christmas no matter what the weather forecast may be and the future will hold. We know and can be confident that Jesus is present in it all.

Peace,

James