Isaiah 9:6, “For unto
us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon
his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Although the Advent season is a very
peaceful time for some Christians, it is often everything but peaceful for
others. I distinctly remember that those
days were often extremely stressful for me. During those years when I was a
college music director we produced our musical dramas in the college chapel.
Most memorable was one afternoon in early
December when I went on the chapel platform to inspect the stage setting. We had a large section of the stage right set
that had been glued together that morning.
Much to my horror I discovered that there was a large puddle of glue
that had leaked onto the carpet that had been freshly laid during the previous
summer.
“Quick like a flash I sprang up to
see what was the matter!” An hour later after
much scrubbing the carpet was free of the Elmer’s glue and a most awful catastrophe
was avoided. I am not sure that I relaxed again until the Christmas musical production
was over, the set was struck, and I had inspected the new carpet for any
tell-tail signs of glue. The memory of
that event is amusing to me now, but it wasn’t then.
As practicing musicians we cannot
always avoid stress, but we should make sure that it does not totally obscure
the reason for the season. In the midst
of all you are doing, make sure to keep Christ’s first and second coming
paramount in your thinking.
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