Jason joins me again in the studio to talk about his relationship with Immanuel this first Christmas without Kara, how he is engaging his grief, and what it looks like to choose joy.
#14: Jason & Christmas Pt. 2 (MFP)
Kara’s Collection: Metamorphosis
From an article originally posted May 4, 2013…
It was the summer of 1994. I had just graduated, but more importantly Jesus had taken ahold of me and changed me forever. My life was dramatically changed and richly influenced by the sweetest group of friends I still consider some of my dearest friends. Several of the people from this season came and cared for me through my darkest days with cancer. Each one is a beautiful gift to me.
Immanuel ~ by John Lynch
I wanted to write something special for today, to celebrate Christmas and to also acknowledge our desperate need for our Messiah. And then I saw this on my friend John Lynch’s Facebook page, and I knew I couldn’t write anything more beautiful or complete or vulnerable or lovely. Read, allow your heart to soak in this truth, be changed my our God coming to be with us.
This Christmas Day by John Blase
I awoke with a start convinced I heard
the clatter of sleigh bells.
Ha, what a sentimental fool.
It was simply the vaccine tags on the
beagle’s neck jing-jing-jing-a-linging.
I plugged in the lights on our
lopsided tree and it dawned on me
I fall in love every day.
#13: Jason & Christmas
This week, Jason joins me in the studio to talk about community-building, grief, processing loss with children, and this first Christmas without Kara.
