Christmas music

The radio has been playing Christmas music all day long today. Some songs are just beautiful and you can never get tired listening to them. Others are just plain awful and you have to wonder why on earth they were ever recorded in first place…. But most of all Christmas songs bring back memories. When My grown-up Christmas list with Amy Grant came on it was suddenly 1992 and I was back in Texas and college. The lyrics were beautiful already back then, but I don’t think I truly understood the meaning of the words. Yes, I was one of those spoiled college brats… But now I know better and those wishes will always be on my grown-up Christmas list.

My grown-up Christmas list
Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee.
I wrote to you with childhood fantasies.

Well I'm all grown-up now
And still need help somehow.
I'm not a child,
But my heart still can dream.

So here's my lifelong wish.
My grown up Christmas list...
Not for myself
But for a world in need.

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start
and time would heal all hearts.

Everyone would have a friend
and right would always win...
And love would never end
This is my grown-up Christmas list.

As children we believed
The grandest sight to see was
Something lovely wrapped beneath our tree.

Well heaven surely knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal a hurting human soul.

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts.

Everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up Christmas list.

-David Foster & Linda Thompson Jenner