The Bells Ring From Mourning to Joy
I wish you a blessed, thoughtful Christmas. You may not feel merry, but hopeful for the healing that will come. I promise it will come.
I wish you a blessed, thoughtful Christmas. You may not feel merry, but hopeful for the healing that will come. I promise it will come.
This Christmas season, I challenge you to read carefully some of the less-heard Christmas carols. I believe you may be encouraged by their words. Without this special season, we would not know the hope the Christ-child-Savior brings to us.
Enjoy the day after Thanksgiving. Feast again on the left-overs from yesterday's Thanksgiving meal. Put up your decorations for Christmas if that is your custom. And give thanks. The eternal battle is won!
This is to let those who are in deep grief, that the stark sadness will pass, although there is work in getting through grief.
Some of you reading this are either widowed or divorced or never married. You can apply this to your roommate, other household members, or even where you work.
We often say we are standing on the shoulders of our previous mates. Our previous marriages have benefitted this marriage.
God made you so you could share in His creation.
Is that what we do in life? Keep watching in vain for the perfect shot? For something that most likely won't happen? Instead of just enjoying the beauty right in front of us?
That is true with grief. At one point--perhaps a longer time than you would like, you will get to the other side of grief. I can tell you it's true, for I've been there.
We don't know what's around the next corner, but we do know who will carry and deliver us. That's a promise for you, too.