I love this time of year! I love the cooler temps. I love the feel of wrapping up the busyness of the summer and slowing down a bit. Of course, I love hay bales, pumpkins, and mums too. And I love the challenge I give myself every year, to eat a new pumpkin-something!
Fall leads to Thanksgiving, my most favorite holiday. But it also leads me to missing my Dad a little bit more all over again.
Have you ever known true heartbreak? Moments of true grief? For me, my Dad’s death was that moment.
I recently discovered Katherine and Jay Wolf. Google them! Their story is so inspiring! At the age of 26, Katherine had a massive brain stem stroke. After much time in therapy, she is left with facial paralysis, hearing and visual deficits, and other handicaps
She writes, “For us, hope has not been in good thoughts or the positivity of the human spirit. As nice as they are, those things fade shockingly fast when you experience the deepest pains of life. The hope we desperately cling to with every fiber of our being is the only true hope that heals-hope in Jesus Christ. . . This Hope has the power to heal us in the place that is most deeply broken, our souls. It enables us to keep swimming, to walk through hell if we must, and to live.”
So powerful!!
Good vibes, good thoughts, karma, higher powers, enlightened ideas…they can only bring comfort for so long before they just don’t cut it any longer.
“When you pass through the waters I will be with you…When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. For I am the Lord, your God, your Savior.” Isaiah 43:2-3
If you are finding yourself wading in seasonal melancholy, or you and your family are right in the middle of the fire, I encourage you to turn your eyes on Jesus! The Name above all names…the only Name that can give us hope and life.
PS
Google Jay and Katherine Wolf!