Christmas Play

As you may know from my previous post, last week from Thursday through Sunday Annelise and I were part of the Christmas play at Great Bridge Baptist Church.

It was quite a production. The first half of the play was mostly Christmas and winter type music, "Frosty the Snowman", "Jingle Bells," etc. We came out early in the second half of the play. Mary and I (Joseph) marched down the isle to the tune of "Silent Night." Then the lights would dim and we would run off stage and get Annelise (baby Jesus) from Jen, who brought her every night and did a good job of trying to make sure she was well fed and sleepy. Then we would stand center stage with her as the shepherds, children, and wise men came to visit, each with an accompanying choir song. We were out there about half an hour total.

Annelise was perfect. She didn't cry a single time. She would move around every once in a while, hopefully making the audience realize we were using a real baby. The music was very loud on the stage, but I think that actually caused her to sleep. It was very pleasant music.

It really did consume almost every night of last week. I had to be there around 6:30 and didn't leave until nearly 9:00. To be honest, I had my concerns about losing all that time in the beginning. But I found myself really enjoying it. Sunday night during the last performance I found myself sad that it was going to be all over.

Many times I find that Christmas sneaks up on me and is gone before I realize what happened, being in this play helped me to take a step back and look at what is important about Christmas. In the end, it was definitely worth it.