Christmas in Your Dreams

Sometimes Christmas in reality and Christmas the way we want it to be are two completely different things. This year, Christmas is going to be bittersweet for some people that I care about deeply. Often times it is during the holiday season that we most keenly feel the loss of those we love. We wish that they could be here one more time for one more moment. This is Christmas in our dreams.

Perhaps I do not know you personally or know all that you have been through but I do understand that if you have lost a loved one this year; this holiday will be different for you. The homegoing of my great aunt this year and the fact that I can still count on one hand the number of Christmases it's been since my dear great-grandmother went to be with the Lord, remind me of loss. If you are sad this season, you are not alone.

When I consider that I would rather have my loved ones with me this season I am reminded that perhaps they would rather not be here because they are with Jesus. I can only imagine what it will be like in heaven this Christmas. What rejoicing! What hope! What peace! If we were there I doubt we would wish anyone back with us. Knowing that the people I loved are spending Christmas with the Son of God makes me not miss them so much. I'll see them again someday and of course, they'll be "home for Christmas if only in my dreams."

May you find the peace of Christ and feel the hope of seeing again those who were his. Merry Christmas!

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
-1 Thessalonians 4:13