Sunday Song {You're Here and Everything Changed}

This is a recycled post from last year, but just because it is recycled doesn't make it any less poignant to me. Last year this was my favorite Christmas song and it is definitely still is this year. This song is taking my breathe away more this year than last. Each year I move deeper into the Christmas story, unwrapping {again thanks to our amazing pastor} and savoring it. Our entire faith hinges on this story. If the virgin birth isn't true or real then we might as well just chuck our Bibles and buy into commercialism and "Happy Holidays."
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I have the Francesca Battistelli Christmas CD. 

Love it.

I especially love Your Here. 

The song takes my breathe way, just imagining Mary giving birth and holding Baby Jesus. 

You ever just go through life accepting the facts and nodding along, but then one day it just hits you like a freight train and you "get it" and really see it for the first time.

That is this song for me. I love a lot of traditional Christmas songs, but our Christian artists have seemed to step it up this year with some newer amazing songs.

The lyrics are below. Drink them in and imagine. This may be easier for a mother and especially mothers of baby boys. If you have boys AND girls, you know there is a difference in how we view them, love them, dream for them and protect them.

Your Here

Hold on now, got to take a deep breath.
I don't know what to say when I look in your eyes.
You made the world before I was born,
And here I am holding you in my arms tonight. 
Noel, Noel
Jesus our Emmanuel. 
(Chorus)
You're here.
I'm holding you so near.
I'm staring into the face of my Savior,
King and Creator.
You could of left us on our own.
But you're here. 
I don't know how long I'm going to have you for,
But I'll be watching when you change the world.
Look at your hands, they're still so small.
Someday you're going to stretch them out and save us all. 
Noel, Noel
God with us, Emmanuel. 
(Chorus)
You're here.
I'm holding you so near. Oh, oh.
I'm staring into the face of my Savior,
King and Creator.
You could of left us on our own.
But you're here.
You're here. 
Someday I'm going to look back on this,
The night that God became my baby boy.
Someday you're going to go home again,
But you'll leave your spirit,
And flood the world with joy. 
(Chorus)
You'll be here.
I'm holding you so near. Oh, oh.
I'm staring into the face of my Savior,
King and Creator.
You could of left me on my own.
But you're here.
You're here.
Hallelujah, you're here.
Hallelujah, you're here.

Songwriters: GLOVER, BEN / BATTISTELLI, FRANCESCA

Just pause and think about giving birth and looking in your child's eyes and then realizing that child, is Jesus, God incarnate. HE made this world. HE created  you and now you are holding HIM, so HE could be with us, to SAVE US! Mind blown.

You are staring into those big brown {or blue} eyes and smiling, but all the while knowing He has come to be our Savior. That gives me chills. He "could have left us on our own," but HE CAME.

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We are singing Everything Changed at all 6 of our Christmas Eve services. Another song that blows me away. The video nearly brings me to tears (both happy and sad).

Everything Changed
by Eddie Kirkland
by North Point Music

Album: North Point Christmas

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On a night like this on a broken road
she is far from sleep, she is far from home
for a baby's cries tear the still of night
she wonders why

the future was bright and clear; she planned for a wedding day
her daddy would hold back tears giving her hand away
now all her hope and fear in a cradle lay
for a baby came and everything changed

on a night like this many years ago
as she held him close, she had come to know
that a mother's heart could not let him go
and she now knows why

the future was bright and clear with hope and a promise made
the Light of the world was near, choirs of angels sang
heaven's exalted king in a manger lay
cause a baby came and everything changed

when our dreams grow dim and our hearts grow cold
He is never far from our broken soul

Gloria! our God is with us!
Gloria! He has come to save!
Mercy and love now for every generation
for the Savior came and everything changed

Gloria! our God is with us!
Gloria! He has come to save!
Mercy and love now for every generation
for the Savior came and everything changed

 Sometimes we tend to melt Mary and Joseph into the background of Jesus' birth, like they are unimportant bystanders. But watching it play out, well I can't imagine the sacrifice that both made to bring this baby into the world. This isn't today's society where being pregnant out of wedlock is no big thing. It was a HUGE thing in those times. I am fairly certain Mary could have been stoned for such betrayal {being pregnant NOT by her betrothed}. But instead Joseph listen and obeyed God and stayed with Mary. That had to not been easy. I am pretty sure whispers were made as they would have been in today's time, but Joseph never wavered. The courage and faith to listen and follow God's plan and raise Jesus...well that is nothing short of an incredible task.

Then I think about how we all have dreams and hopes for our babies, for their futures. To look at your newborn, that innocent, tiny, fragile newborn and know that HIS future will be death to pay for our sins. Not His, ours. Wow. How? How as a mother do you comprehend that? The faith Mary AND Joseph possessed is incredible to me. Would I have done it?

I just love this whole plan and history of Jesus' birth.
Maybe it took becoming a mother to truly understand a mother's heart and the sacrifices parents make for their babies, even if you baby boy was Jesus.

Thank you Jesus for coming. You didn't have to, you could have left me on my own, but you didn't you came. For me. For us.

I pray everyone finds the true meaning in Christmas this year and everyday.

Merry Christmas!