When Everything Changed
“It’s hard to know what the next moment will bring, so enjoy what you have while you can.”
Loren Thornburg
Life is full of markers, of moments when everything changed. On December 14th, 2012 everything changed for families, for schools, for America. Although many states removed, I can’t help but think and feel a little different than I did before that day. I wasn’t there, I don’t know anyone who was, and I haven’t had to walk through anything like it, but I can’t help but feel the weight and fear. As I see the faces and grieve their loss I am unsure what it looks like from here. I walk through a parking lot and wonder if that could be the place that another act of violence will occur. Yet in that same breathe I can’t help but also enjoy all the more, the moments I have now with those around me. You see the thing is, my safety has never been guaranteed, nor is that of any of those around me. So all I know to do is enjoy to the full all that I have been given for as long as I am given it to enjoy. I grieve for the day that everything changed for so many families and as I fall to my knees I find thanks for another day with those I love.
“For to you is born this day in the town of David a Savior, Who is Christ the Messiah the Lord!”
Luke 2:11 Amplified
In these days of grief I have to remember Hope. I am so thankful for that day long ago when everything changed, but this time it was change for everlasting LIFE. It was that day when a Savior was born for us. Hope came in a way no one would have guessed. No one could have made up a story like that which people would have believed. The shepherds saw it and they knew. Mary saw the Son and she knew that everything was going to change. As we grieve tremendous loss and change there is one thing that doesn’t change...hope. Hope remains because Jesus came. So grieve, but don’t forget that long before December 14, 2012 Hope came to save you. It came to meet you right where you are in whatever pain, loss, fear, or shame you find yourself in. He came to give you life in the midst of those places. Jesus came to save you...that’s when everything changed.
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