When joyful or tragic things occur, it changes the way we view holidays. But when it’s the latter, the pain it produces can linger over many years, even a lifetime.
Here’s a thing to remember: though Christmas and Thanksgiving may be different—even radically different—from our perspective, in heaven, everything remains the same.
If you’re hurting right about now, or treading water, or barely hanging on, or lonely, or aching, know that God is unchanging. Grace is forever. Christ is still reigning. And God has NOT turned his attention away from you. He knows you intimately, understands what you’re feeling, receives you in Jesus, loves you with an infinite love, and has supplied his own Spirit in your heart.
Should the holidays heighten or ignite some embedded pain, you can bank on the unchanging God who loves you. That’s a promise.
