I usually try not to be so negative sounding but I was completely wiped out this weekend and the poor hubby was so sick he was in bed all day and I was on my own. If I have to clean up anymore messes, or pick up another toy, or fight with another kid about picking up toys I just might lose it! And I probably did. When I get so exhausted I usually need a good cry and a good sleep. Unfortunately there is nothing that can fix missing my mom and needing her to be here right now.

How does this lady know what I need to hear. Glennon, Momastery-

Humanity is at its best and most brutiful within the family. And so I think that this holiday season we should honor all different kinds of families. Not because they are perfect, but because they are sacred. Every family is sacred because in a family, God is there. God is love, and so where there is love between people, any people – especially broken, messed up, weak ones – there is God. And THAT is what makes a family beautiful. It’s not the clothes and the smiles and the decorations. It’s the struggles and the miracles that happen when we love each other through those struggles.  It’s God in there.

It’s the pain and the loss – the half dead trees that life hands us and it’s how we say – FINE. I am going to make something beautiful out of this. Because it may be half dead, but that means it’s also half aLIVE. And if you are breathing and have someone, anyone to love today, than your tree is half alive too. If you have someone to love, then you have a family. Even if the love is messy and broken and the person you love seems far and beyond. Where there is love, there is God. And so whatever it looks like and feels like this year- your family is sacred. I honor your family this year. Family is hard, but we can do hard things.

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