Christmas Letter 2024
Hope. There is nothing I can say about hope that hasn’t been said before but I find it very meaningful to try to put words to how it has bolstered me – or maybe “propped me up” is the better description-- for this last little while. The great thing for you is that you can keep reading or pitch this piece of paper and move on into the rest of your day or evening. I’ll never know. : ) A month after celebrating Christmas last year with my extended family in Georgia, we lost Daddy. I was with him for the week before and Blake and I were on either side of him in his bedroom of 50 years holding his hand as he went home for good. We couldn’t have asked for anything sweeter. Oh, but what a weighty loss. Many of you know this weight— the emotions, the decisions, the memories, the grief…and at the same time, the gift from God of being able to hold JOY at the same time. Joy that he is free, that he’s in the presence of the Lo...
