Hey everybody, this is Aubrey. As we come to the end of the year, I wanted to invite you to consider

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Hey everybody as Christmas Eve settles around us, we want to invite you into a quiet

meditation written by Tyler Johnson and published as the culmination of the Advent

series in the Faith Matters Magazine, Wayfair, with music from the King's College

choir singing O Magnum Mysterium. This reflection draws us into the sacred reality of the nativity, the laboring Mary,

exhausted and tearful, the beauty borne through pain.

It reminds us that the Christ's child didn't come to erase suffering, but to teach us how to live

and love within it.

So in this moment of stillness before tomorrow's joy, we invite you to pause, breathe,

and reflect on this Christmas truth, that love enters the world through labor and struggle,

bringing with it a deeper peace and lasting meaning. I also want to mention that you can go to

the Faith Matters YouTube channel to see this meditation with beautiful art from Brandon

Gonzalez.

And from all of us at Faith Matters and Wayfair magazine, we wish you a peaceful Christmas Eve.

I can imagine that when Mary and Joseph first arrived at the manger, Joseph's first sensation would

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