Making this December 26 better than last year’s

In the past, the day after Christmas was one of my least favorite days of the year. My feelings had less to do with saying goodbye to the “hap-happiest season of all” and more to do with how I lived the weeks leading up to Christmas Day. I’m ashamed to say that during these years, my focus wasn’t as much on Christ as it was on my desperate need to have the warm and fuzzy Christmases I saw in most Christmas movies.  Because I had spent multiple Christmases alone or in a hospital be