A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE from Evelyn Pinto 12/30/2025from Evelyn Pinto 1

Dear Friends, Family, Church Family, Helpers + Friends and People I have yet to meet,

I pray all of you will have a sacred, holy, joyous, jovial and loving Christmas!

It’s the time of love, forgiveness, letting go and letting God!

It’s the season of miracles and joy!

For me, it has been a difficult, challenging and frightening year!

I have been sick and at times, I have required immediate emergency care followed by hospital admissions on the medical units at the hospital.

The last, most recent hospital inpatient encounter was in November, 2025.

I had been battling  an aggressive pneumonia that required 2 different antibiotics, IV antibiotics and also an antibiotic in pill form.

My oxygen saturations were dipping dangerously low and I was already in Respiratory Failure.

I was in the hospital for about a week which comes to approximately 2 months that I have been home.

I am still working on recovery.

I have been on a higher liter of supplemental oxygen + I am actively in the art of pacing myself not to do too much at once!

I continue to have difficult and challenging breathing (not breathing really) episodes and my oxygen continue to dip downwards.

I am relieved that these acute happenings are less frequent.

This fleeting year of 2025 has also been a warm, cuddly, comforting time as my walk with my Ever Present Jesus becomes strong and stronger!

Jesus carries me in my weak, torn, tired, exhausted, hurting and sick body to a Safe Place, a Place of Comfort, Peace, Love, Charity, Understanding, Sacrifice and Joy!

I know that whatever Life tosses at me, it’s not my fight anymore.

I gave this fight to God!

Now it’s God’s fight!

As I grow older and wiser (presumably) I view life as sacred and fleeting.

Time has been traveling so, so quickly!

Yesterday, I actually thought Christmas was 2 weeks away.

Later that day, I came to that realization that Christmas is actually this Thursday.

Yes, I have been sicker, weaker, tired more, totally exhausted from doing so little activities of exertion.

I live with serious health conditions.

I fight the effects of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, Congestive Heart Failure, Acute Hypoxia, Respiratory Failure, Igg deficiency, Osteoporosis, Pulmonary Nodules, Pulmonary Hypertension and the list grows and goes on…

I am getting around less and praying more!

I have reached the realization that I have more Life behind me and less days to live ahead of me.

I want to seize the days I have left!

I choose to cherish those moments of peace, love and friendships!

I want to snatch those moments of perfection in the imperfect!

I want to bestow on those precious humans love, gratitude and thanks!

I will carefully wrap this gratitude up in care, love and prayers and g

raciously give it to those who have helped me, and continue to do so and

expecting nothing in return!

I want to hold tightly in a fond, warm embrace those precious souls that are present in my life and have stayed to this day!

I hold onto them in a fond, warm hug and not let go until it feels as if my insides have burst out of me and landed into my lap!

I was hospitalized a few months ago due to a life threatening, vicious pneumonia.

There were difficulties and challenges when treating the brutal pneumonia that had been savagely attacking my body.

I constantly work to keep my oxygen saturations steady and at a safe level.

To this very day, I have to pace myself, slow down and not do too much at once just to ensure I can breathe adequately.

I take extra care not to have my oxygen saturations are from dipping downwards!

I have not been the wisest judge in knowing when to slow down and in knowing when to stop.

My life is filled with limited outside activities because of my oxygen dipping downwards upon exertion.

I need to limit my physical activiti to ensure oxygen goes throughout my entire body.

My dear friends, I choose Life!

I will see today as my colorful, fragrant and lovely planner.

I will grab hold of this day as a gift my Lord has so graciously bestowed on me!

I will see the miracles in those gracious trees that are covered in snow.

These wondrous, elegant trees are strong enough to shield the newborn robins outside my window while giving these tiny creatures warmth, protection and food.

After falling into a deep sleep all day today, I awoke at 5 pm.

I am in pain, exhausted, somewhat sick and other bothersome and worrisome symptoms.

It will not be the Christmas I planned for this year.

It will be the Christmas that needs to be!

My dear friends, family and church family and those persons who are reading this script of mine:

Please take some time from your Christmas joy and give time to those who are sick, who are alone, who are in hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, and other places that house the forgotten, the lonely, the disregarded, the ignored and the neglected.

Please, make that time and bring love, joy and care to those who need it!

Tonight, I am feeling sick, down, indefinite, in pain and hurting.

Even so, I remember the 1st Christmas where Jesus was born in a stable.

Even with all that straw, and the animals, I still can imagine how Mary and Joseph fixed it comfortably for Jesus, even in those extreme circumstances.

Dear friends, as I end this, I do ask you reach out to others and share the Christmas joy to those who really need to hear it and to see it!

Please, make that time for those forgotten, those lonely, those in crisis, those sick, those fincially burden, those neighbors, friends and persons who need to know they are cared about and are not forgotten, love, sincerity, prayers, hugs and gratitude,

From my apt,

A physically sick, tired, exhausted, frightened,

Content and

blessed,

Friend, neighbor, niece, sister, cousin, aunt, customer, service recipient and acquaintance,

Evelyn (Pinto) 

December 23, 2025