Christmas is meant to be a season of merriment and joy, filled with colourful paper crowns, twinkling fairy light garlands strung around a tree, and the laughter of young children echoing throughout homes from Tamworth to Timbuktu. For Christians, the feast is all the more precious, as we celebrate the arrival of the Infant Christ.
But loss is part of the Christian experience too. For anyone grieving the ghosts of Christmases past, learning to live with that hollowness is often hardest during the holidays.
