Back in my pastoring days I learned that when it came to deciding things like what color we should paint the nursery or what we should serve at the Annual ( you fill in the blank) Banquet the fewer people involved the better. The reason is simple. If you paint the nursery green but Mrs. Jones prefers orange, if you did not ask her, she will simply think you picked an ugly color. But if you ask Mrs. Jones what color she thinks you should choose, and the walls still get painted green, well now it's personal. Her input has been rejected and you may very well have to deal with her hurt feelings. This same principle applies to putting together a list of top Christmas recordings. While compiling my list I asked for my wife's input. I showed her what I had put together and asked her if she had any suggestions. She named several songs she thought deserved consideration and some of those made the list. Some did not. In particular her favorite did not. This di not...
