Everyone is excited about this holiday season and I, as well, am anticipating traveling home to my parents and family. I am also experiencing some underlying emotions of loss and grief , for a large variety of reasons. While settling my issues, I was inspired to write a brief article for others because I know for many the holidays can strike a number of chords, simultaneously causing individuals to have spikes of anxiety and depression.

This season can be a struggle for various reasons, such as health issues, recent or ongoing incarceration, death and even finances. Economical growth or lack thereof can overwhelm the conversations at dinner tables. Sometimes, even in a crowded room of those that you love, you can feel lonely as you’re engaging in casual conversations as your weaving in and out of the food lines.

Loss and lack are hard and inevitable but life doesn’t end there, holidays won’t there and nor does memories.

So, please consider this as your kind reminder that if anything, the holidays are a prime example of “everything isn’t perfect but it’s all working.” One must consider the bad with the good because for each Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years the next isn’t guaranteed.

A toast to the current state of health, life and spiritual riches because regardless of what it looks like in its own right, each are a gift!

I’ve decided to really soak up the time spent with loved ones. I’m making it my personal mission to hone into the energy to create memories because if one thing’s for sure and two is for certain that nothing in this lifetime is promised, and again, while everything isn’t perfect all is still working.

I encourage each of you to enjoy the process and appreciate what’s working this holiday season. While you keep those prayers for change and better days tucked in your heart, always be sure to give gratitude for the present!

And remember, trial and tribulations is how we gain our crowns, it’s through test after test that our strength is perfected and wisdom is added to us.

So one last time… everything isn’t perfect but it’s all… working!

Enjoy this holiday season for what it is… a joyous experience!