Can we live in a snowglobe?

I am willing to guess that you are not very familiar with this Christmas song. It lives on the darker side. It is called Snowglobe.

This starts out very pleasant. Depicting life inside a snowglobe; a perfect life straight from a Christmas card. This is what we want Christmas to be. This perfect little season of joy and gift giving. We look forward to it all year. But once it is here we can’t wait for it to be over.

All the parties and the checklists and the joyless days
There's a reason it's all so exhausting
Where's the meaning?
Where's the wonder?
Where's the dreaming?
All this busyness bleeding the season dry

Is this not exactly what Satan does? Turn the things we want to be joyful about into these dark, exhausting, meaningless parts of our lives. This season that we claim is all about giving we have turned into getting the best things for ourselves. Or into making sure we are the one person to give the best gift.

This is the season when the world should be the most peaceful and in harmony but that isn’t what we see at all. Rather It's Jurassic, So much traffic, All these people, so impatient, And slowly they realize This is not like it was in the snowglobe.

The song even layers its closing statements to make them harder to hear, this is to reflect on how much we ignore them. But in the end my prayer is the last lines of the song.

May the One who ignited the star
Over Bethlehem
Ever light your way

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” - Luke 10:38-42