My Grown Up Christmas List

In ten days, Christians all over the world will celebrate Christmas. Not sure where the month of December has gone but it is quickly disappearing. As I travel through town, it seems there are many more lights up than usual. I'm sure the warm weather earlier this month has something to do with the number of lights but I also wonder if they are an attempt to "light up" a world that seems to need Light.

A song that was written by Linda Thompson and David Foster and released in 2006 is one of my favorite Christmas songs. Not the usual Christmas Carol like "Hark the Herald Angels" or "Joy to the World" but much more specific to the time in which we live. A song that can be and probably is embraced by all faiths and philosophies throughout our world. Here are the lyrics and a link to Amy Grant singing

My 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
And still need 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
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown-up Christmas list

As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree
Well heaven surely knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And 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 our blind belief can we ever find the truth

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end, oh
This is my grown-up Christmas list
This is my only life long wish
This is my grown-up Christmas list

Read more: Amy Grant - Grown - Up Christmas List Lyrics | MetroLyrics

 

 Amy Grant singing Grown Up Christmas List

 

Namaste,

 

Mareda