Are you having trouble celebrating at a time when others are readily expressing the joy of Christmas?

Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth.

This Christmas season, and every season, there is a lot of sadness.

There is a lot of pain.

There is a lot of heartache.

There is a lot of sorrow in this world.

But the birth of Jesus changes everything.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, author of The Quiet

Place. For December 22nd, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

So how are you feeling this Christmas season? Our emotions can be all over the place,

especially with the anticipation of all the holidays bring. Whether you're happy and

excited or carrying sadness and heartache, you can be rooted in joy no matter what you're

facing, because Jesus is always inviting us to fix our eyes on him, so when you come and adore

him, you'll remember that you always have a reason to hope,

a reason to be joyful. We're in the middle of a series, Nancy's presenting, called Come Adore,

the Gospel and Carols. Now, if you missed any of those episodes, you can hear them all at

revive our hearts.com or find them on the Revive Our Hearts app. Here's Nancy. We light an

Advent candle on each of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas and then on Christmas Day as we

anticipate the Advent, the coming, the arrival of Christ our Savior. Now he has come and we celebrate

that and we rejoice in it. But we also look forward to that Christmas day coming when we celebrate His Advent,

and beyond that to the return of Christ here to this earth.

And that's what we're talking about over these several days last week and then a few days this week

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