It's time to turn the page.
His story. Her story. Their story.
How long have they spent in a chapter of pain, sorrow, and uncertainty?
Have they spent so long hidden within the lines of tragedy, abuse, and neglect that this chapter will never be finished?
Their tender hearts that once trusted and cried out for help quickly read that hope is not a part of their story. A love that could love them out of the dark places was in other stories but not their own.
And then from the recesses of their despair a voice whispers, “Turn the page.”
They ask themselves, “Can the next page truly be different than the ones that precede it? The pain and darkness is familiar to me. What if when I turn the page it’s just more of the same?”
The voice whispers again, “I will help you turn the page. I will walk with you through the lines that are yet be written.”
And hope is born! A strength is mustered within a fragile heart that begins to see that their story could be different.
To turn the page is like a breath of fresh air, it’s clear and fresh and white. There are no stains of chapters past. Can they dare hope this new chapter, so unknown and foreign, be the turning point of their story? Their hearts are timid because it’s so unfamiliar, but when hope cries out she can’t be ignored! She splashes across the pages of an unwritten chapter with joy, excitement, healing, and anticipation for chapters to come.
Are you willing to help them turn the page? To write a new chapter?
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.”