Blues Christmas | Rev. T. J. FitzGerald | 12.21.2025
This Fourth Sunday of Advent sermon, Rev. T. J. FitzGerald reflects on grief, addiction, loss, and the quiet pain many people carry during the holidays. Drawing on James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues, the wisdom of the blues tradition, and personal stories of love and endurance, this message speaks to those who feel cracked open by life and wonder how the light still gets in.
In the darkest season of the year, this Unitarian Universalist Christmas sermon offers compassion, honesty, and hope. It reminds us that our hearts do not crack to punish us, but to let in mercy, understanding, and love.
