Sometimes we get all wrapped up in our own holiday celebrations and traditions that we forget about those around us that are experiencing what we label a blue Christmas. A Christmas that for some reason is not very joyous or celebratory.
Maybe the family that lost their job and have no way to pays their bills and put food on the table much less buy Christmas presents for their kids.
What about those who are spending their first Christmas without mom or dad?
A soldier overseas whose only Christmas tree is one fashioned out of Christmas cards above his bunk.
The parents who've lost their precious baby (no matter what age).
The elderly spending a Christmas alone in the nursing home because their families live too far away to visit.
Those who have chosen a lifestyle that has distanced them from their families, so they are no longer welcome.
The parents waiting by the bedside of their little one who has just received the unthinkable diagnosis.
Some around us just don't feel like celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior...they are too burdened down with the cares of this world. Burdened down with horrible grief and loss. Let's do what we can to "bear one another's burdens" this Christmas. Let's pray for those who need a special comforting touch from above. Then do what we can to ease their heavy load.
"God comforts us in all our afflictions so that we may be able to
comfort them which are in trouble, by the comfort
wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow...
Psalm 34:18
comfort them which are in trouble, by the comfort
wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow...
Psalm 34:18
I love you Mom, I'm thinking of you today!