Celebrating Christmas and Brighter Days: Hope, Peace & Joy

There they sat in the tree outside my window - mama and papa cardinal, plump, robust and quite content on the first day of winter.  Ah yes, my parents bringing me a reminder, a sign that at the onset of the season, day by day, we gradually gain more daylight.  Our lives will see a bit more sunshine every day from now until summer.

How true, this analogy to our grief.  Slowly, step-by-step, we feel a little bit better.  We gradually heal.  We gain more sunlight.

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