Christmas doesn’t always arrive with clarity.

For some, it’s full and bright.
For others, it’s quiet, complicated, or tender in ways that don’t translate easily.

If this season is slower than you hoped, or heavier than it looks from the outside, you’re not alone in that.

You don’t have to feel grateful on demand.

Sometimes presence is simply allowing the moment to be what it is, without rushing it into meaning.

Wherever this holiday season finds you, may it meet you gently.

-- Monica