Merry Christmas, beloved! ✨🎧
Merry Christmas, beloved! ✨
I hope today meets you with a little sparkle — inside and out.
Not necessarily piles of presents under the tree (though that can be fun!), but the kind of joy that finds you in the beauty and the chaos, the quiet and the noise, the ordinary and the holy. 💫
Today, I just wanted to drop into your inbox with a simple Christmas love note.
🎧 I recorded a voice-memo–style podcast episode about this on on your Tribe Beloved Love Notes podcast feed. You can listen right here.
Because here’s the truth rising in my heart this morning:
God meets us in the middle of our real life — not the perfected version of it.
Since I wrote this in advance (you know, to be present for the day 😉), my family is likely doing some of our normal life-ing – even on Christmas. Picture it:
- A toddler “swiffering” everything in sight (including the couch).
- A first-grader covering the floor in tiny paper shapes and routine cards while singing his favorite TobyMac song.
- My husband attempting to stretch on the couch moments before someone — child or me — climbs on him.
Me sipping a homemade chai latte, reminding myself:
“This, too, is holy.”
- Maybe your Christmas looks different.
- Maybe it’s loud.
- Maybe it’s tender.
- Maybe it’s everything you hoped for.
- Maybe it’s stirring up feelings you didn’t expect.
Wherever you are today, here is your reminder:
Being God’s Beloved is the gift that doesn’t depend on the season you’re in or the mood you woke up with.
You are loved before you lift a finger.
Loved in the chaos and the quiet.
Loved in the in-between.
Loved even when you don’t feel lovable. ❤️
That identity — Beloved — is the foundation under every season that has passed and every season still to come.
And so, I want to leave you with a Christmas blessing:
A Christmas Blessing for You
🌟 May today meet you with gentleness.
🌟 May joy surprise you in the smallest corners.
🌟 May peace settle into your shoulders like a warm blanket.
🌟 May you feel God’s nearness — not because you worked for it, but because He delights to be with you.
🌟 And may the year ahead unfold with grace, kindness, and a deeper sense of who you already are in Him.
Later this week — after the wrapping paper settles and the house quiets a bit — I’ll share something simple and life-giving to guide you in choosing your Word of the Year.
No pressure, no prescriptions… just a gentle companion for reflection when you’re ready.
And if you’re sensing a nudge to rediscover your God-given gifts in the new year, the God-Given Gifts Chat Circle waitlist is open.
It’s a joy-filled, voice-and-text mini-retreat designed to help you notice and nurture one God-given gift in the season you’re in — with community, encouragement, and lots of grace. Hop on the waitlist:
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Merry Christmas, beloved. I’m so glad you’re YOU!
Cortney Loui
Christian life coach + speaker
Helping Christian women uncover their God-given gifts and wiring—so they can stop second-guessing and start living with joyful confidence.
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P.S. If today feels tender for you in any way, I’m holding you close in prayer. You’re not behind. You’re not forgotten. You are deeply, wildly, fully loved by God.
I’m Cortney, a recovering over-achiever and God’s beloved who loves helping fellow Christian women like you embrace your God-given gifts so you have the confidence to live authentically.
I’m also a full-time mama to two sweet little boys, wife to my best friend, motivational speaker, and part-time Christian life coach. Chai lattes, strong coffee, podcasts, yoga, dance, and fairy tales nourish my soul and add sweetness to life.
Discovering the joy of embracing my God-given gifts and who He created me to be was a game-changer—a journey that brought freedom, unexpected delights, and relief from guilt. Finally, I felt free to be myself and ditch the pressure of being someone I wasn’t.
Incorporating those gifts into my day—from weekly planning to deciding on commitments, nurturing my marriage, and parenting—transformed everything. Now, I can’t imagine life without the perspective of fully embracing who God created me to be. I was missing so much without it!
