🎄Christmas Eve
No idea why the body of the newsletter didn’t publish, but alas! Feels on brand for 2021, yes?
No formal newsletter today, but wanted everyone to have a place to share goods and bads, treasures and turds, should you need/want it.
Merry Christmas, my friends. Hope you have a very gentle and kind holiday.❤️
We are full of the Christmas spirit over here, and wishing all of you the same. Happy Christmas, I hope your holiday is gentle and delightful in whatever way you need it to be this year.
As Kermit the Frog says:
There's magic in the air this evening
Magic in the air
The world is at her best, you know
When people love and care
The promise of excitement
Is one the night will keep
After all there's only one more sleep 'til Christmas
Lots of love to everyone!!!
Merry Christmas everyone. I was just reflecting on last Christmas, which held so much grief and despair for me. I had been locked down alone in a different country than the rest of my family for 8 months and was finally crashing back into a very different America at the end of 2021 with my family. I broke down, pretty inconsolable, talking about O Come O Come Emmanuel around the Christmas tree.
I know 2021 has been a hard year for so many of us, but for me it’s also been a time of healing and being loved and seeing God show up in the people around me because I had nothing left to give. I want to mourn with all of you over the grief of this year. But I also want to share that God has brought quiet joy where I wasn’t expecting it. My mourning isn’t quite dancing, but at least it can get off the couch. God is still showing up. May your Christmas be gentle and kind, friends.