A Table Set For One

The holidays don't wait for us to be ready.

Shortly after Christmas, Katie Meeson went to visit a widow at her home to discuss a headstone. What she didn't expect was what the woman would tell her about Christmas Day — about the table she almost didn't set, the meal she cooked anyway, the candle she kept burning all night, and the prayer she whispered before she ate.

A story about one woman's quiet, stubborn courage on the hardest Christmas of her life.

Sometimes healing begins the moment we choose to stay at the table. Even when it's set for one. Even then.