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Kevin Dayhoff Westminster Patch: Feeling Blue at the holidays – When in hole stop digging. @WestminstrPatch

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Feeling Blue at the holidays – When in hole stop digging.

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Sadly the holidays can also be a difficult time for folks who have suffered a personal loss in recent years. Especially if that personal loss occurred in the past year… Fortunately there are many resources in the community that are available to help

Posted by Kevin E. Dayhoff , December 16, 2013

Kevin Dayhoff Westminster Patch: Feeling Blue at the holidays – When in hole stop digging. http://tinyurl.com/kdjykjo @WestminstrPatch

Westminster Patch by Kevin Dayhoff, November 25, 2013 – December 14, 2013

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This past week marked the beginning of the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays. It is a time to celebrate the past year with our friends and family and look forward to new beginnings.

However, sadly the holidays can also be a difficult time for folks who have suffered a personal loss in recent years. Especially if that personal loss occurred in the past year…

This is the time of the year when we when often nostalgically reflect about Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in the past - when we celebrated with family members, loved-ones, friends and colleagues that are no longer with us.

Fortunately there are many resources in the community that are available to help cope. Although Carroll Hospice has already had a “coping with the holidays” workshop, many local churches have a “Blue Christmas” service including Taylorsville United Methodist Church. (And of course, there is always “Retail Therapy - All signs point to shopping locally in Carroll County this Christmas season.”)

The service at Taylorsville will take place on December 19, 2013 at 7 p.m. at 4356 Ridge Road, Mt Airy, MD 21771.

Pastor Sarah B. Dorrance serves as the pastor at Taylorsville and writes, Blue Christmas “is a time to be celebrating the birth of our Savior even in the midst of changed circumstances that might be hard for us. It is a time to remember that Jesus changes everything, even the hurts and the pains we might be experiencing today, and the birth of our Lord is something special to be celebrated.”

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