Last year, I discovered Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God (buy the download here…you won’t be sorry). I listened to it advent calendar-style — “opened” one or two songs in the days leading up to Christmas. This landed me on Christmas day with the title cut, “Behold the Lamb of God.”
The album is this perfect progression of story and sound that trails through not just the “Christmas Story,” but a larger segment of the biblical narrative, the exodus thru the birth of Christ. It’s very grounding — ties me into a Story that is easy to lose sight of in the midst of all the dailiness and craziness of the season, a Narrative with an intensity that years of church has dulled. Advent makes me want to be closer to that Story, to hear it with clarity and to be in it in very real ways in the dailiness of my life.
I’m listening though the album the same way this year. And I can breathe…
So, yeah…shameless plug for Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God.
