23/11/2025
Beautifully put ❤️💚
Nothing truly prepares you for the moment when a familiar Christmas sound becomes only a memory. The voice you long to hear — the one that once called your name with warmth, joy, or comfort — now lives only in your heart. And somehow, that realization hits harder during the holidays than at any other time of the year.
Christmas has a way of amplifying both love and loss. The tree glows beautifully, the room fills with the scent of pine and cinnamon, yet there’s a quiet ache that reminds you someone who shaped your world isn’t here to share it. You find yourself listening for echoes that no longer come, wishing for just one more moment, one more word, one more Christmas morning together.
But grief, as heavy as it feels, is really love with nowhere to go. And that love remains — in the stories you tell, the traditions you carry forward, the pieces of them you hold onto without even realizing it. They may not be here in the way they once were, but their presence still wraps around your Christmas, soft and steady, like the glow of a star on top of the tree.