Christmas Eve
For Christmas Eve I wanted to watch the Denver Broncos game. My parents wanted me to go to the Christmas Eve service. I ended up going to the Christmas Eve service.
The service started out like most church services – boring. Usually the Christmas services are slightly better than the rest of the year because there is a decent collection of Christmas carols. Unfortunately this church decided to choose a collection of the slowest carols for their service.
I probably would have dozed off if it wasn’t for two unique performances in the service. The first was two young girls (5th grade, maybe?) playing an oboe duet. Now, for those of you who don’t know, the oboe is one of the hardest instruments to play. Well … it’s one of the hardest instruments to play in tune. 5th graders can barely play a piano in tune, much less an oboe. As soon as I saw those reeds come out I knew my ears were in for a special treat. I was not disappointed.
The next unique performance was the children’s play that was performed. Children’s plays are money! The cast was made up of three sheep, two Burger Kings, three angels and a couple of unidentifiable characters. I’m not sure exactly what the play was about because multiple sections were acted by the director trying to whisper lines to the forgetful kids.
At several points during the play the cast would all come together to “sing” Christmas carols. One of the sheep used this time to show the audience his stomach. In the angel group – two of them would sing and third would just stare at the other two. I’m pretty sure several were just lip syncing.
All-in-all a blogworthy service.
