Everyone has as story.
Stories of love and loss.
Stories of beauty and brokenness.
Reality is…..in every one’s life their will be stories of both triumphs and tribulations.
So, what about you? What’s YOUR story? Are there things you’ve overcame? Things you’ve endured? Things that left scars. Things that humbled you? Things that changed you? Things that you STILL struggle with?
Could it be that God may have brought you through the very same circumstances that the lady you run into today is going through? She needs hope. She needs to know that she is not alone. You may be the answer to the prayers this sister has been praying…her heart cry for a friend who understands her, who really gets what it’s like to face what she is facing. Please, don’t be silent. Look deeper, past her smile and recognize the pain. Reach out to her. Love on her. Bring light to the darkness the surrounds her. She needs you. She needs you not just to give her a hug and tell her how sorry you are, she needs to hear YOUR story. There is something divine that happens as we share with a transparent heart what God has brought us through. As she hears how God transformed your brokenness to beauty, a flicker of hope ignites in the ashes of her heart. God may use that very moment to whisper to her wounded heart that Jesus desires to bring healing to her heart, as well.
He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. 2 Cor 1:4
Post by Mindy Adams
There were two movies that demonstrated this point, that everyone has a story. One was the movie Hoosiers. After watching this inspiring story of a small hometown team overcoming incredible odds, they posed for a team picture, that suddenly turned to black and white. The camera view stepped back and it was just one picture on a wall of many pictures and the sounds of kids playing basketball in the gym were heard. You wanted to call everyone there over to tell them about the people in the picture. And how can you forget Saving Private Ryan. At the end of this movie after the man who was saved finds “Tom Hanks” grave, the camera pans to the whole field of crosses, his was one of thousands. We all have a story, and God is intimately familiar with all of our storied, every detail.
There were two movies that demonstrated this point, that everyone has a story. One was the movie Hoosiers. After watching this inspiring story of a small hometown team overcoming incredible odds, they posed for a team picture, that suddenly turned to black and white. The camera view stepped back and it was just one picture on a wall of many pictures and the sounds of kids playing basketball in the gym were heard. You wanted to call everyone there over to tell them about the people in the picture. And how can you forget Saving Private Ryan. At the end of this movie after the man who was saved finds “Tom Hanks” grave, the camera pans to the whole field of crosses, his was one of thousands. We all have a story, and God is intimately familiar with all of our stories, every detail.