Feliz Navidad

I Watch My Heart

They are taking our liberties away
This seems to be the worry of the day
Christmas is now Happy Holidays
And marriages now can be gay

Is it really important the day that baby Jesus was born
In the bible we don’t know the time, evening, night or morn
If it really were so important the time would be spoken
So that the celebration of His birth would never be broken

The time, the day, the hour, or the season
Really don’t change what truly is the reason
His birth and his death, are really quite a story
Impossible to believe if you’ve never been sorry

It’s the sin that I have left that makes the old man die
Not the Christmas time story that many think is a lie
What the world needs to celebrate is not another familyget together
Rather on our knees we really need to get our act together

Let them make Christmas a holiday and Easter a spring break
That won’t make the least little change in what really it takes
To make the new birth come true, right down in your heart
Soon you will know that this is more than a story made for art

It’s Christmas, it’s Noel, Navidad or Bonart
It’s not a name that places it down in my heart
It’s an experience that only a Savior can bring
In knowing that my life is now fresher than spring

The birth of my Jesus isn’t really my worry
It’s my new birth that day that I really, really was sorry
Now every day I have to die, to make it really worthwhile
Knowing that Jesus can bring me much more that a smile

The day that they take this belief from my heart
Is the day when the worrying really should start
All the laws in the land and the police there could be
Will never let the Christmas story be lost to me

It’s not a story, a play or a special holiday
Not a tree or a manger where the little Jesus lay
It’s my belief, it’s an experience, it’s really my life
Though they change it all, I still know that my Jesus is alive

Philip Tolman
12-21-06