The Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall is indeed a “spectacular” production! Even though much of the show remains the same each year, performances are presented with such beauty, precision and good taste that audiences return season after season. Among my favorite scenes are a 3D ride through the skies of New York and classic pieces such as the March of the Toy Soldiers and the Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies. Yet for me, the most spectacular and moving scene of the production comes at the very end – the living Nativity. The fact that the scene is still included and is presented with such reverence and dignity is truly a wonder in itself.
Picture it in your mind. A stately procession moves in single file across the stage guided by a bright light: kings and servants, camels and donkeys, shepherds and sheep. They gather before a manger elevated on a hill. Mary and Joseph and the newborn Jesus are there. The light focuses now on the baby as Joseph lifts him high above his head, a symbol that the child is an offering. He is a gift . . . a gift offered not to God, but to the audience! Wise men dressed in beautiful gowns bow before him in tribute. As the curtain falls, the chorus sings O Come, Let us Adore Him; they sing the invitation of Christmas.
This invitation is once again offered to you this Christmas. You are invited to reach out to the extended hands of God and make God’s gift your own. When you do, when you enter into and intentionally cultivate your relationship with Christ, you discover the power, the peace and the love of Christmas. You experience God’s exquisite gift, for you!
O Come, Let us Adore Him!
Picture it in your mind. A stately procession moves in single file across the stage guided by a bright light: kings and servants, camels and donkeys, shepherds and sheep. They gather before a manger elevated on a hill. Mary and Joseph and the newborn Jesus are there. The light focuses now on the baby as Joseph lifts him high above his head, a symbol that the child is an offering. He is a gift . . . a gift offered not to God, but to the audience! Wise men dressed in beautiful gowns bow before him in tribute. As the curtain falls, the chorus sings O Come, Let us Adore Him; they sing the invitation of Christmas.
This invitation is once again offered to you this Christmas. You are invited to reach out to the extended hands of God and make God’s gift your own. When you do, when you enter into and intentionally cultivate your relationship with Christ, you discover the power, the peace and the love of Christmas. You experience God’s exquisite gift, for you!
O Come, Let us Adore Him!
