"Grown Up Christmas List"

I must admit that my favorite Christmas song is the "Little Drummer Boy." Even in summer time, I sometimes catch myself humming the tune or singing the familiar "pum, pum, pum."

However, I recently heard a Christmas song that I really liked and have been listening to it over the past few days. It is called "My Grown Up Christmas List." I've been listening to the Michael Buble' version but there are other good versions out there. The song has a powerful message. It describes our "childhood fantasies" about Santa and our childish wants from him. Then, it switches and speaks of the narrator's grown up Christmas list, which is filled with care and concern for others and not about his own selfish wants. Good stuff! May we never worry about what we will get from others, but instead worry about what we can give.

Check out the following link to the song along with a touching video about homelessness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7zRtLptyc4

Here are the lyrics as well:

"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
Can you still 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
Every man would have a friend
That right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown-up Christmas list

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in that blind belief can we ever find the truth

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal our hearts
Every man would have a friend
That right would always win
And love would never end

This is my grown-up Christmas list
This is my only lifelong wish
This is my grown-up Christmas list



What's on your Christmas list this year?