Welcome to the conversations that matter

podcast. My name is John Harris. I hope that everyone is getting into what we

referred to as the holiday spirit or I like to say the Christmas spirit because that is the holiday

that we are actually celebrating it is the holy day of Christ's birth when we

celebrate it the advent of God coming into the temporal realm have you thought

about that that's such an amazing concept it's just God the God of the universe who

created this place entered into it.

There's a line from a very old song my parents used to play this Michael Card song

and he talks anyway about a mother made by her own child in one of his songs and it's just it's very

profound when you think about it but there is a Christmas spirit that is partially related to Advent, but also I think partially related to the season.

Now I can say that as someone who's in a very cold area right now and it's getting colder.

Maybe you don't feel that way if you're living in Florida or the deep south or southern California,

but if you are in the north or the Midwest,

then you know that there's a big seasonal change.

And so with that seasonal change,

there's a lot of habits, a lot of things that obviously, I think this actually goes for the deep south now, obviously everyone's drinking certain beverages, right?

Hot chocolate. People are dressing even a little differently the styles change even in warm areas so the styles change

watching different kinds of movies and listening to different kinds of music and perhaps reading different kinds of

books. I know one of my favorite books to read and I've done this now two or three

years no three years I think at least is a book by Washington Irving called

old Christmas and I've thought actually about doing some live readings of it on on the podcast just because I think it's so good

But you can get it on audible. I mean you don't have to hear me me reading it but I just thought I had this vision in my head of a Christmas tree and a blanket and some hot cocoa and a fire going and we're going to read some old Christmas I I don't know if people would be interested in that.

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