Perspective In Him: A Holiday Devotional Series
"This Christmas”
A SPOKEN WORD PRESENTATION
How does that song go?
You know from that Christmas movie
Oh yes, This Christmas
Hang all the mistletoe,
I’m going to get to know you better
This Christmas
As we,
Prepare the meals, let’s prepare for spills.
As we clean the kitchen,
Let’s also clean the closet.
Every skeleton and bone of this family
That’s been buried for years shall have the
Opportunity to heal.
As we,
Say grace, let’s not forget to extend it.
I know your son’s not the man he’s supposed to be.
Flunked out of college, the only Mathematics he
knows is multiplying his seed,
and dividing his time between the ladies.
Paying child support
but there’s no child support.
Now, another child feels rejected and is left
Unprotected.
I know your daughter wears her clothes way too tight
and her choices in men just ain’t right.
One only wants to use, the other only wants to abuse,
and the one she really wants doesn’t even want her.
She’s been living off the system
because she never developed a system
or took advantage of grandmama’s wisdom.
As we,
Pass the peas, cousins can we please
Let bygones be bygones,
That money she borrowed is long gone.
Is $300 bucks worth not extending memory lane together?
Come on y’all,
Think about all the good times y’all used to have.
See y’all used to play dolls together
Do hair together, roll dice together
Shoot hoops together,
and because that was fam you would
Jump through hoops forever.
When did forever end
and that family bond becomes so singed?
Now, go ahead and butter these biscuits
because we need to lighten the mood
and end this family feud.
It was with this ring that you be-wed
and in her bed, you betrayed her trust
because you gave in to passion and lust.
Now, her heart is crushed
because she played the fool but she can’t
help but remember you were her first
crush.
Now, go ahead, get the hot sauce
and pour it on these chitterlings
and if you can’t stand the heat then
Get out the kitchen.
If you can’t stand the smell, just remember
You brought it in when you took us through hell.
Did I forget to mention
How drug addiction
Almost tore this family apart
Or how one sister was treated like royalty
because her skin was high yellow and hair down her back
and the other made to feel like Dark & Lovely was just
a myth.
This Christmas
Will be a very special Christmas
This Christmas
We will see just how good my God can be.
As we,
Gather together
We can see how we made it through all that mess
and the darkest weather.
As we,
Cut in this heavenly ham
Heaven will remind us of how far we’ve come
From scraping at the bottom
and being on food stamps and public assistance
to praising at the top because you got good credit
and money in the bank
Ayo shorty what you think!
See the world may say loving you is wrong
because you are the reason I can’t sleep at night.
Family secrets are reoccurring nightmares
But this Christmas will be a very special Christmas
Because instead of saying grace, We will receive it.
Unto us, a child is born
a son is given
and He is the reason we all are forgiven.
He stands at the door and He knocks
and with a tick and a tock
He will turn back the clock
This Christmas will be a very special Christmas
See the prodigal son will come home because
he’s been gone way too long.
I may not be my brother’s keeper but
I will no longer be his grim reaper.
No more putting his name to shame talking about the dreadful things
he did at night.
We will hug the sisters we haven’t seen for years
and maybe even shed tears.
Uncle John is finally going to get some help
and Aunt Joyce will never feel alone, again.
We will come to visit you at the nursing home and make sure we
right all our wrong.
This Christmas will be a very special Christmas
Because the King is here. It’s time for the best part
Cakes and pies
as far as the eyes can see.
Something for you and something for me
Over a slice of pecan pie, that stuck up Aunt will say Hi
and she will realize
Her money don’t make her any better than
anybody else.
Then,
We will smell something even sweeter than big Mama’s cakes.
It is the sweetest name I know.
Something about that name
Jesus.
Nails in His hands. Nails in His feet
A crown of thorns on His head.
This Christmas
We will see you in all your glory as you restore the family once more.
Mothers won’t feel stressed
Children will feel love
Fathers will feel like they’re enough
Cousins will hug
Brothers won’t fight
Sisters won’t hate
Outside children will be embraced
Wounds will heal
Hearts will forgive
But still.
Ain’t nobody eating Aunt Bessie’s cooking.
We’re still gonna ask ‘Who made the potato salad?!!’
Oh yea
Make sure there’s no raisins in the Macaroni and get the dogs and cats
out the kitchen
Laughter is good for the soul.
This family is now made whole
This Christmas! Will be a very special Christmas!
