We come to the season of Christmas with both the joy of the season and the despair of life’s challenges and trials. How can we be "Merry and Bright" amidst all we are facing? The birth of Jesus helps us to navigate both celebration and concern in our present realities. In this series we hope to acknowledge and empathize with many of the ways that the holiday season reveals the harder aspects of life (what isn’t "merry and bright"), and then offer how the truth of the gospel and how Jesus meets us and speaks into those broken places, often in unexpected ways.