29 Honest Christmas Grief Quotes When You’re Missing Someone You Love.
When my dad was diagnosed with Lung Cancer, we had no idea how this story would end. Unfortunately, after a 21-month battle that an army would be proud of we spent our very first holidays without him.
After almost 2 years of adventures, bucket lists, and talking about everything under the sun, we lost my dad. 3 months before Christmas time.
Everything just stopped.
I had so much anxiety and dread in the pit of my stomach leading up to the holiday season. If it weren’t for my mom and the kids, I would have just stayed in my pj’s and skipped the whole thing. But I had to get through it for my mom (who was really struggling) and the kids, so I tried to suck it up as best as I could.
I tried to embrace the Christmas season. I made Christmas cookies, sang Christmas songs, and shopped for a precious gift for each of the kids so they would always know how much they mean to me.
Basically, I faked it and just focused on getting through it.
I felt incredible relief when it was finally over and I didn’t have to deal with it for another year.
There is a ton of pressure during that time of year to feel happy, grateful, and excited by the season…
But I wasn’t feeling any of it.
I was devastated and grieving and didn’t want to deal with the “magic of the season.”
Where do you even start trying to deal with the loss of someone who has been there for every part of your life?
You just do the best you can. That should be the message of Christmas.
Life goes on around you and you do your best to participate.
Talking with someone and getting some of this stuff off your chest will help.
Some days you can’t deal with any of it and that’s okay. Your whole world is crashing down around you and you cry all day. You just can’t get it together.
On other days you might feel a little better. You feel like there is hope that things will be okay again. (So naturally, you feel guilty about feeling any kind of hope).
Then out of nowhere… you see something, burst into tears and you’re right back to where you started.
Each day is its own struggle. And the holidays, are ROUGH.
There is deep pain and some of the hardest hours of grief leading up to Christmas day. Especially for the first few years.
What used to be a happy time, Christmas dinner, holiday cheer, family gatherings…
The days leading up to the first Christmas holidays SUCK.
It’s hard to be in the company of others and to be thankful to our heavenly father when you drowning in grief.
There is nothing that can ease the pain of losing someone significant in your life. There is nothing that will make it easier or make it less painful. People want to help, but there is just nothing that will make it better.
You just have to keep going. Wake up every morning and do the best you can.
It’s like a new tradition. Wake up every day and just survive.
These Christmas quotes helped my family muddle through Christmas after my dad passed away.
I hope it does the same for your family members.
P.S. A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Christmas Shoes were at least relatable (although the latter made me ball my eyes out) and I had good memories of my dad and I watching them together.
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