The wounds cut deep; both physically and figuratively. Several Decembers ago, I fell down the stairs. People sometimes talk about traumatic events as experienced through a surreal slow motion reality at the time. That would perfectly describe how it played out for me. Returning from a late church meeting, I longed for rest. While snuggling […]
Christmas
How to Sit With Sadness at Christmas: A Guest Post
Today, Elisabeth Klein guest posts about navigating through the Christmas season when you are not feeling “merry.” Welcome her! I went through a period of feeling lost. Sad. Blah. Passion-less. I purchased a book to help me work through the sad state I was in and I was clicking right along. I did everything it told […]
Unwrapping the Gifts of Christmas…Hope
Every year, the pastor of our church brings the humorous, yet truthful, reminder that our home nativity scenes should not include the wisemen until after Christmas.