Christmas Best Flash Mobs

I generally greatly enjoy fun flashmobs. I especially like the way kids and couples and older folks react to a flash mob, don’t you?

About this Carson School of Management flash mob video: It was well produced. Great set-up, good camera work, nice vocals and dance coordination. But, I couldn’t help noticing something missing from all that “Holiday” celebration.

What do they sing in this one? Just “Deck the Halls.” The last scene shows a big banner “Diversity in the Workplace.” (Yeah, “diversity,” the applied meaning of which in effect is sadly ironic, or course.) And the final frame? “Happy Holidays.”

Well, I won’t begrudge anybody their enjoyment of a secular “Xmas.” Jingle Bells and Christmas Trees and Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, but… but… I was inspired to spend a couple of hours tracking down spiritually inspiring Christmas flash mobs. I made a playlist.

Christmas Best Flash Mobs playlist

(I may have snuck in a few not-exactly-Christmas bits, like Amazing Grace and Ode to Joy…)

This is what life in Heaven will be like. In a life to come, we will all have perfect voices, and perfect pitch and rhythm, so that we can fully express our joy and thankfulness. We will spontaneously burst out in songs of praise and joy reverberating in the halls on high.

Meanwhile, you’re at the train station, or the mall, an airport, or a hospital, or just out and about, in New York, or Korea, or even Oklahoma, and suddenly folks start singing “Joy to the World” or “Silent Night” or “Come All Ye Faithful…” Even when it’s not pitch-perfect or always on the beat, it can be Heavenly on Earth.

You might want to make sure you have a soft hanky (or two) handy. Tissues can be scratchy after enough of them.

Thanks for the inspiration, bluebird.

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