A Holiday Message from Bob 

Thanksgiving. Christmas. New Years. It’s that time of year—six weeks of festivities. However, holidays are not festive for everyone. So, in past years, I’ve posted a several-part blog series entitled Healing for the Holidays. By God’s grace, this series has benefited many people.

I’ve now made the entire series available as a free 20-page PDF that you can download at Healing for the Holidays.

I developed the Healing for the Holidays series from the gift-book God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting. You can download Quotes of Note, a sample chapter, and more, for free at the God’s Healing Page here.

Here’s the first page of the Healing for the Holiday’s PDF… 

Holidays… 

Holidays… They’re “supposed” to make us think of words like “thankful,” “merry,” and “happy.” We’re “supposed” to associate holidays with a phrase like “Home for the Holidays!” 

But… what if a loved one is not coming home this holiday season? What if death, divorce, distance, or family discord causes us to associate the holidays with words and feelings like depression, anxiety, and stress? 

Holidays can create fresh memories of our loss and a fresh experience of pain and


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