Just for the fun of it, we are beginning each of our Advent messages by recalling a Christmas song. Some of these songs are secular, some are sacred. Our song for this Sunday is several decades old. It was first sung by a young rock-and-roller named Elvis Presley. I don’t know if you remember him or not. Of course Elvis sang, “I’ll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas without you.” I hope I put in a sufficient number of “blue, blues,” in case there is a die hard Presley fan in the room. However, I felt “Blue Christmas” would fit in with Isaiah 40 which begins, “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.” That’s a great theme for the second Sunday in Advent. Comfort. Not everyone is full of cheer at Christmas. In fact, this is a season when depression is at a peak for some people.

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