My Christmas Wish (And A Free Song For You)

 

I spent yesterday baking candy and cookies with my daughters and my sister. Since my oldest child was born, we’ve held an annual Christmas baking day. Yesterday’s baking was an all-afternoon event, and everybody pitched in.

Upon mixing the first recipe, my middle child announced, “It doesn’t feel like Christmas until we bake. Now it feels like Christmas.”

Ah, yes, it doesn’t feel like Christmas for many people.

It doesn’t feel much like Christmas {“the most wonderful time of the year”} when you’re experiencing:

  • financial stress
  • rejection
  • estrangement
  • judgment
  • broken traditions
  • sickness
  • regret
  • failed dreams
  • unforgiveness

Christmas puts a microscope right up to all those problems and magnifies them. It can result in overwhelming depression and anxiety. The days seem forever long, and the nights endless. The tears flow quicker and easier than usual. Hope feels like a cruel joke.

At Christmastime — more than ever — we need to be reminded that we are loved just as we are. Unconditionally.

I want to remind you that you are loved. Today through Christmas day, you can download “You Are Loved” {a song my co-writer, George Vinson, and I recorded earlier this year} for free. Listen and let the words sink deep into your heart. My Christmas wish is that you find comfort through this simple song.

 

“You Are Loved”


Verse One
When your world is cold and dark
And the scars have all left their mark
When you can’t cry one more tear
And the night feels like a year
You are loved
  
Verse Two
When you can’t do one thing right
And all hope is out of sight
When the voice has told you lies
And your heart just wants to die
You are loved
 
Chorus
You are loved just as you are
You are loved just as you are
You are loved
 
Verse Three
When life seems to go all wrong
And you can’t even sing your song
When your soul has lost has its dance
And you’ve wasted your last chance
You are loved
 
Chorus
You are loved just as you are
You are loved just as you are
You are loved just as you are
You are loved just as you are
You are loved
 
Bridge
Love in a warm embrace
In the lines of a letter or an unknown face
A love that lasts, one that stays
Even when it gets pushed away
 
Chorus
You are loved just as you are
You are loved just as you are
You are loved just as you are
You are loved just as you are
You are loved


Click here to read about the inspiration for “You Are Loved.”

Click here to watch a video of George and me performing “You Are Loved.”

 

“You Are Loved” credits

Written and produced by Rebekah Gilbert & George Vinson (c)(p)2014
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Eric Bates, Bates Brothers Recording, Hueytown AL
Keyboards and programming by Charles Harnach
Vocals by Rebekah Gilbert
Guitars by George Vinson

 

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