This is the end of an article written by By Kim White · December 23, 2020
The author tells of a Christmas when her family really struggled, what she learned that will help all of us when life is less than perfect...
If this year, your Christmas celebrations are less than ideal, I would invite you to think of yours not as a sad/disappointing/lonely Christmas, but as a more authentic one. You have the chance this year to celebrate a different kind of Savior—a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, a man betrayed and misunderstood, a man abandoned, a man who loves us far more reliably than we love Him. He deserves all the joy and rapture and celebration and lights and music and public acclaim we can possibly assemble; He loves to be remembered through the gathering of friends and family and the giving of gifts and service and worshipful song. One day, when all things are subject to Him, our sorrows will be erased and our tears wiped away and every lonely Christmas forgotten, and on that day our rejoicings will be echoed in the heavens.
But that day has not yet come. If you are suffering this Christmas, you are the reason for the season. The loneliness and difficulty you feel in this mortal realm are precisely why we have a Savior and a Comforter.
It is not about having the “perfect day”; it is about looking forward to the truly perfect day when all sickness of body and mind will be healed, when our loved ones will be restored to us again, and when the tears will be dried from all faces.
Christmas isn’t just for big happy families with lots of money for presents. It is for you too. It is the promise God has made that, even though you are lonely and suffering now, He has overcome all things for your good. Claim this Christmas as your own, yours and your Savior’s, and it will be.
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