"As December draws to a close, we find ourselves standing in a quiet in-between. The calendar is nearly full, yet our hearts feel unfinished...lingering somewhere between what was and what might be. The final days of the year carry a softer sound...less about celebration, more about reflection. It is a pause the world offers us, whether we notice it or not. For now, we stand here...in the middle of the last page and the first, quietly hopeful, and ready in our own time."