Christmas Shoes - Bob Carlysle

I'm posting this beautiful song to remind us that Christmas isn't simply the festivities, but the heart of sharing and family.

Whenever I hear this song it never ceases to bring tears to my eyes.

It is always the simple things that matter in our lives. It's not the gifts, really, but the love of family and friends. The simple joy of the boy in wanting to make his mother beautiful is enough to remind us that it is love that makes the season, and our lives, meaningful.

We are all like the person who has witnessed the boy--we look too much in the unimportant things in our lives that it amazes us to see the simple ones that matter.

We work too much to enjoy the simple things, when we can have the simple things without working too much.

In poverty, the boy still knows what is important to him.

Young children do not really understand much about the world, but they know enough about the world to live in its simplicity and awe-filled splendor. The young boy in the song does not understand that shoes are not really brought to heaven with us, but he still bought his mother a pair of shoes just so she can be pretty even in her deathbed.

It's not about the shoes, but the thought that the boy wanted his mother to be look beautiful in a new pair of shoes when she meets Jesus. The little boy believed that one should be looking his own best when facing the Lord.

When we face Jesus, will we be looking our best?

I hope we look at life, the world, and our loved ones the way the little boy did, as with this innocence comes the boundless view of the world and the ways we can share our lives with others.