I think there is hope and healing after trauma. One travels with the other, makes the other possible. When you don’t carry the hope, others can carry it for you. Many years ago we told a woman that we would carry the hope for her when she broke down and confessed that she had none. Several years later, on another dark day for her, she looked up at me and asked “Do you carry my hope in your pocket?” I’ll never forget that moment. That was the moment that I knew that people in dark and desperate and hurting places want to have hope and healing but cannot quite. In the place of hope for themselves, may lean upon others hope for their healing.
It is too much. And I wish you weren’t going through it.
But it’s not so much that we have stopped believing you can heal. We carry the hope for you and C and J in our hearts and pockets.
I think there is hope and healing after trauma. One travels with the other, makes the other possible. When you don’t carry the hope, others can carry it for you. Many years ago we told a woman that we would carry the hope for her when she broke down and confessed that she had none. Several years later, on another dark day for her, she looked up at me and asked “Do you carry my hope in your pocket?” I’ll never forget that moment. That was the moment that I knew that people in dark and desperate and hurting places want to have hope and healing but cannot quite. In the place of hope for themselves, may lean upon others hope for their healing.
It is too much. And I wish you weren’t going through it.
But it’s not so much that we have stopped believing you can heal. We carry the hope for you and C and J in our hearts and pockets.