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December 22, 2025 • 7 mins

🎄 LIGHT in the Darkness | Tara Johnson’s Christmas in Crisis

My friend, this episode reaches straight into the heart of anyone walking through a heavy Christmas. Tara Johnson joins me and opens up, with incredible honesty, about the crisis her family is facing — her husband’s seven-week hospitalization, multiple intubations, and the agonizing waiting, watching, and praying in a hospital room filled with beeping monitors, antiseptic, and survival-mode moments.

She says, “Christmas doesn’t even feel like Christmas right now. Everything is dark.”
And maybe you feel that too.

Tara shares how Thanksgiving became Cracker Barrel takeout… how her days blur together in the ICU… and how the holidays often highlight life’s deepest pain.

But then God handed her a story — a story from her hero, Corrie Ten Boom — one she had never heard before, sent by a friend in the exact moment she needed it.

Corrie, suffering from severe edema and starvation in Ravensbrück concentration camp, wondered how Christmas could exist in that darkness. Then came her unexpected encounter with a small, terrified girl named Ellie — and a moment of LIGHT so profound it reframed everything.

As Tara retells this story, she begins to see her own season differently:
Christmas isn’t about the feelings we long for…
It’s about the LIGHT we bring into dark places.

✨ In this heartfelt conversation, you’ll learn:

  1. How God shows up in the places that feel forgotten
  2. Why Christmas is still Christmas even when everything falls apart
  3. How giving LIGHT away can shift your entire season

đź’” The emotional breakthrough:
Tara realizes: “Christmas is not about receiving love — it’s about giving it away.”

🎥 Why should you watch?
Because your Christmas might feel dark too — and Tara’s story will help you see Jesus stepping into that darkness with LIGHT.

✨🎄❤️ #JesusIsLight #HopeInHardSeasons #ChristmasEncouragement

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