Kristin Peterson
This holiday season is honestly, a strange one! As families navigate spending time together over zoom calls and have virtual mashed potato wars with relatives, we long to be together again. Maybe you can relate with me in loving snippets of normalcy, like walking through a Christmas tree lot, experiencing holiday cheer from bell ringers outside a grocery store, and hearing All I Want For Christmas Is You for the hundredth time on the radio. Christmas traditions have never felt so comforting.
Have you ever felt so overcome in a situation where you froze up? Maybe you could not even get words out of your mouth to utter a prayer, or cry out? Your trouble could have felt so deep that even God seemed distant from it?
Volume increases. Instrumental strings sound out in combination of a low keyboard pad with the note progression D-F-G. The drummer comes in quietly with a minimal beat, only hitting on the two and four counts. By now, if you have heard the song before, you already know the lyrics that are coming.
