I'm going to tell you a story, a story about a woman who found herself hating Christmas. This woman had been tossed around by life. She had been moved around so much as a kid she really had no friends and had a lot of difficulty trusting people to stay in her life. She had watched her dad leave countless times only to return and then leave again.
She went through her early years working very hard to make sure those around her were taken care of. Never really thinking about what she wanted out of life, never really trying to enjoy herself. She was married a few years but that was one argument after another and it wasn't long till she was done. Right after that she met someone she had known before and they hit it off again. They enjoyed several years together before the man got sick and after three years of the battle he had no more fight left and he left her too. She was alone and broken. Her kids were grown now and her husband was gone; she had no one to take care of. She had lost her purpose in life.