For some of us, the Christmas Season is marked with feelings of loss, sadness, disappointment or pain. For whatever reason, sometimes we find that we cannot respond to the expectations of joy and cheer. The Blue Christmas Service - offered at the beginning of the season - holds a space for us to validate those feelings in community and in the context of a service designed to give us the tools we need to get through the season. This simple service provides a space of quiet holiness, a vocabulary of prayer and song, and a reminder that we are not alone.