Christmas in the dark?

I hope everything is good for you this Christmas. If not, please consider this little essay by Ray Van Neste:

It seems that many people think you can only celebrate Christmas if all is well. You can see this in the various statements beginning with, “It just does not seem like Christmas because ….” Perhaps we set ourselves up for failure by expecting everything to be just right at this time of the year.

That's the opening paragraph. The concluding one is worth the time of clicking on over to Ray's site.