Christmas Gave Us This Powerful Gift No One Talks About

What materialism’s wake can teach you

Jeff Syblik
Koinonia
Published in
5 min readApr 7, 2022

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Sometimes disastrous Christmases shed unusual life. Author Image made on canva.com

God, why me! Why us? My wife and I cried to ourselves. 2010. In the aftermath of the dot-com crash, we were $30,000 in credit card debt. My job was at its end, and real estate remained unpredictable.

There was no way to save our house. It was Christmastime for our three-year-old…

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Jeff Syblik
Koinonia

Jeff is a content writer and copywriter who gives a refreshing voice to the topics of career reinvention, creativity, teaching, mental health, copywriting…etc.