This has not been the best year for many of us. There has been fear, and pain. Life has thrown everything it has at us, but we all stand here at the end of the year, unbroken.
Look at us, our strength hangs by a thread. If this is to be our Christmas, then I would have us make such a Christmas, as to be worthy of remembrance!
(Apologies to Peter Jackson for the bastardised quote if he ever reads this :P)