Is Your Heart Broken This Christmas? Let Your Feelings Go

I'm trying to help those of you who feel like the hole in your heart this Christmas will never mend. My worldview is that though there are no perfect Christmases because change and the pain that comes with it is inevitable, there is a perfect and unchanging Savior--Jesus Christ, God's Son (Hebrews 13:5).

Yesterday I shared the first step to help you connect or reconnect to Him, take His hand, and walk through these painful days with Him: Let it hurt.

The second step is, Let your feelings go! I wasted a lot of time trying to impress everyone with my capacity to control my emotions the first Christmas after my lymphoma diagnosis. What I didn't know was that time wasn't the only thing being wasted. All that work to suppress what was going on inside of me was wasting me away. When I finally began admitting and expressing the hurt to myself and those closest to me, a heavy burden lifted from my life. The explosion of feelings might scare you, but it's better to explode on the outside than on the inside...even during Christmas.