Dec 24, 2025

December Theme: Reflect & Celebrate

Advent • LOVE • “All is Well”

Nativity artwork with a bright star shining over the manger, titled 'Hope of All the Earth — Love: Our Call to Love Well'.

All Is Well

For our final “How Are You?” of Advent, we’re not offering a check-in. We’re offering a blessing — a holy refrain for weary hearts: All is well.

Not because life is perfect. Not because everything is easy. But because on Christmas, Love comes near — in flesh, in breath, in presence — and the world is never the same again.


A Christmas Love Proclamation

LOVE • “All Is Well”

The angels announced it first — peace on earth, love arriving, light refusing to go out:

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace…” — Luke 2:14

“The light shines in the darkness…” — John 1:5

“And the peace of God… will guard your hearts…” — Philippians 4:7

A Refrain to Carry With You

“All is well, all is well. Lift up your voice and sing! “

Let that be your whispered prayer when the night feels long.
Let it be your steady breath when the world feels loud.
Let it be your reminder that Love has come — and Love remains.

A Gentle Christmas Practice

Today, name one place where Love is calling you to show up — quietly, faithfully, and well.

A text you’ve delayed.
A kindness you can offer.
A boundary you need to keep.
A rest you need to receive.

Love doesn’t have to be dramatic to be real.
Sometimes love is simply showing up — and letting the light do what the light does.

May Christmas Love find you, hold you, and steady you.

All is well.

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