There Is Joy In the Silence (Three)

This will be our first Christmas without our son, who’s in the Navy and has decided to spend this day with his cousins in the Northeast.

Two middle-aged empty nesters in a house suddenly too large and too quiet.

North Dakota can be a very big place, a lonely place, when one doesn’t have any family to spend the holidays with. But loneliness isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

It’s during this quietness that God seems to draw the closest. It is through the silence that His Presence is the most felt, filling you with this beautiful sense of joy.

Christmas is seen as a time spent with family and friends, but many are without loved ones (or they’re too far away). 

But Christmas is also a time of reflection on God’s greatest gift to mankind in the form of a baby who became the source of joy that fills us with hope and peace.

So, though we may be missing our son this holiday season, we are filled with the true spirit of Christmas that is Jesus Christ.

May God bless you with His Presence and fill you with an unceasing joy through His Son, Jesus Christ.