Christmas? yess it’s the most expected time of the year.
For myself as a kid who used to wait for Santa to come down from my chimney and send me my gifts. That’s how we counted his arrival! Sometimes we do use holidays as checkpoints. Each time they come around we see all the things that have changed in the last year… some open Christmas calendar, while some weep tears. Loved ones’ hair is getting grey. Scent of baked cookies flings the Christmas in the air. We are loaded with feelings of familiarity that come along Christmas lights. Each time it feels different. And each time when we decorated a Christmas tree or put on the Christmas lights we know that everything has changed since we last decorated a Christmas tree… The paths we walked have come to an end.

Maybe you have seen or faced a lot of heartbreaks, downfalls this year, maybe experienced some loss, maybe you have come across healing… Maybe you are still working on it! So keep it as a reminder to yourself. That “I’ve come this far and I made it through this year.”
Whether Christmas feels a lot like last year or not
Whether it feels light or heavy
Even if your heart is caught in between familiarity and change
Merry Christmas!!! Even if it won’t be quite the same…
Christmas comes along hope of lives,
It’s love and peace hung on carols rhymes,
Sharing the joy was twilling bells spread wise.
While
Blessings shared by angel hands and whispers of good news knock on your door!
May magic of bells fall upon your doorsteps!

Rtr. Hiranya Edirisinghe
2025 dec 31 just before putting on my Christmas cloak