Hannah and I went and saw Glenn Beck live performance of "The Christmas Sweater" down in Philly a few nights ago and it was incredible!!! I read the book soon after it came out and got pre-sale tickets (I am a "Glenn Beck Insider") in a box right up front. We were close enough to see the tears (and there were a lot) flying from his face. It is just such a neat story. "The Christmas Sweater" is a fictional story of many true events in Glenn Beck's life. During the show there is an even where his mother knitted him a sweater for Christmas because she could not afford the bike he wanted. When he got it, he ran up to his room, threw it on the floor and cried at the window. A few moments later his mother came into the room and saw his sweater which she had worked so hard on rumpled up in a ball on the floor. She said in a hurt tone, "Is this the Christmas sweater I gave you?" During the epilogue, Glenn said, "I do not want to leave this world one day and stand before God and have Him look at His gift to me of redemption and say in the same way, 'Is this what you have done with the gift I gave you?'." Glenn then said that God's gift to man is redemption and atonement and THAT is the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas is a time of redemption, of renewing and freedom! We need to accept that gift of atonement from God and start living in the freedom He has planned for us! Christmas should be a time of renewing! But more than that, Christmas should be something we live every day of the year because once we put that gift of redemption on, the only chains we bear are ones we are holding of our own will.
Wow! What a spiritual experience! It was excellent.
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