…At Christmas time, joy feels amplified. It fills our homes, our churches, our streets, and our hearts. We decorate, we gather, we give, and we remember. We remember why this season exists in the first place, the birth of Christ, a symbol of love given freely, of hope entering the world through humility, of joy arriving not with noise, but with purpose…
…When someone like that leaves your life, it leaves a huge void.
There is no gentle way to describe it. No poetic phrase that fully captures the absence. It is a gap; wide, unexpected, and painfully quiet. A space where laughter once lived…
…Not every burden was meant for us. Not every weight is ours to carry…
…life is a constant balance of dark and light. Darkness has a way of creeping in quietly, through our fears, our doubts, even our disappointments, or when we experience fatigue. Light, on the other hand, requires us to be intentional…
…Life itself feels very much the same. We often think in terms of starts and finishes, but really, it is a circle. Birth feels like a beginning, and death feels like an ending, yet both are part of a much larger continuation…
…what happens when someone, whether at home or work, tries to convince you that your light was never real in the first place? That’s gaslighting….