Well, Merry Christmas from my family to all of you.

And as we prepare our hearts to celebrate the birth of Jesus, I want to give you a moment

just to look within.

And I'm going to ask you kind of a reflective question and start with, have you ever

noticed that in this amazing Christmas season, that Christmas can be

a multiplier? Whatever emotion you feel, it tends to multiply it. If you've got positive emotions,

it multiplies it. If you've got difficult people in your life, oh, it's a multiplier.

And that's why what I want to do is I want to ask you to look back over the past month.

And think about what emotions did you feel most often.

What emotions did you feel most often over the last month? I did a very scientific study

where I walked out of my office and interviewed 30 people. Very scientific study. And I ask them,

what emotions did you feel most often? It was really interesting what I heard. There were a lot of

people that were just like excited, excited. Some of you are those people. You're so excited. You've been

listening to Christmas music since October. There's some excited people. Honestly, there were some

people that were kind of stressed and anxious. They're kind of like going, I've got Christmas parties

here and there's got a Christmas shopping and money's tight and there's so much to do. I don't know. How am I to get it all done? I talked to a couple of people that said, permission to be honest. I said, yeah, please be honest. And they said, I actually feel emotionally heavy. And they used words like depressed a little bit, lonely. And so I pressed a little

deeper and going like, are you not around people? And they said, no, we're actually surrounded by

people. And yet sometimes we feel unseen or unloved or unnoticed. I talked to a couple of people

and my heart goes out to you all, that are feeling grief,

that have experienced deep loss.

And for some of you, this Christmas will be very different from the last, maybe because

there's not someone there because of a divorce or because of another type of loss.

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