Christmas

              Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.  Shakespeare

Today I sent my Christmas cards to those that I loveBut the one I couldn't send was to you up above.In your Christmas card what would I say?That I wish I could see you everyday.Would I wish you Happy Holidays just like the rest?To wish I could hold you would be in my jest.

 Since writing my angel books, I have received so many emails from people who have gone through losses of family members.  Almost all of the letters are about how they hope to get through the holidays.  It is as if Christmas in light of a loss has become an occasion to merely tolerate--or sleep through--in hopes that it will magically disappear.

The holidays seem to magnify emotions of grief as music, events, even aromas can remind us of the person we are missing. Our family lost two close family members within weeks of the holidays, one right before Thanksgiving and the other two years later on December ninth. I remember thinking it would be nice to just pull the covers over my head and wake up in January.