The Christmas season is upon us! The music! The excitement! The decorations! The celebration of our Lord and Savior! This is the time of year for reflection, forgiveness, worship, and joyful time with family and friends.
But for those of us who have lost our moms, the Christmas season can intensify emotions of sadness and feelings of loneliness. New waves of grief that had subsided can become fierce and overwhelming again.
Grief at Christmas
This is the 15th Christmas I have spent without my mom. We haven’t decorated, shopped, planned, celebrated, laughed, baked, or traveled together in over 15 years. I never got to see her celebrate Christmas morning with my daughters in matching jammies. They never got to put baby Jesus in the manger together and hear her tell them about His birth.