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Letters from the Middle

The Soul Companion

A Season of Becoming

Letters from the Middle

The Soul Companion

A Season of Becoming

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A Season of Becoming

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As this year loosens its grip,
maybe you don’t need a fresh start.
Maybe you need a gentle look back.

Not a plan. Not a checklist.

Just a small set of reflection questions
to help you notice where you’ve been,
name what feels true,
and

Christmas didn’t end yesterday.

Christmastide gives us twelve slow days
to breathe again,
to feel what we couldn’t feel yesterday,
to let the Light settle in.

Whatever is true for you now -
relief, sadness, tenderness, fatigue,
or a m

At last, we have arrived at Christmas Eve.
Pause here.

Tonight is the last night of Advent.
Not the finish line of a perfect season-
but the quiet threshold where waiting gives way to wonder.

This is the scandal and the beauty of Christmas:
God do

December 23 is when everyone quietly realizes they might not pull Christmas off after all.

The lists are long. The expectations are loud.

The wrapping paper has vanished.
You’re holding one of the six tape dispensers you apparently own, wonde

When your young adult comes home for Christmas, you might feel this.

There’s a particular tenderness when your grown child comes home.
Joy, of course.
And also ache.

You notice what’s changed-
in them,
in you,
in the space between.

If

Surely we’ve waited long enough for one season.

Tonight, we stand at the threshold-
the place where the dark has stretched as far as it can and pauses.
Not finished.
But beginning, almost imperceptibly, to turn.

Today, Advent Love begins. No

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