You're Here and Everything Changed

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).

 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. 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, but you did. For me. For us.

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

Merry Christmas!