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Peace in His Promise: How I found Hope this Holiday Season

Happy Holidays We are in full swing for the Holiday Season and for a lot of us it is an exciting time full of thoughts of love and families coming together and fabulous home made meals where everyone gathers around the table and sings “Kum-by-ya”. But for some of us, it can be a time of sadness, anxiety, depression, full of regrets and darkness. For me, I have my nice little family that includes myself, Brett, Zack and Haleigh but when you start expanding outside of that, there is a lot of brokenness in relationships: divorce, relational-distance, banishment…relationships that are way off the mark from God’s intention. Holidays Highlight my Brokenness I am from a Christian family, but it is and has always been a broken family from its very foundation. Because of divorce when I was three, my family of origin consists of my mother, my older sister, my younger brother, and myself. It has been over 13 years that the four of us have been together to celebrate the Holiday’