Moving forward into the Future does not leave the Past behind. Moving forward to the Future brings the best and the worst of the Past into a union, a marriage we know as the Present.
It is the marriage of reality.
There are days when it simply feels like my heart has been shredded. On these same days, God takes the shredded fragments of my heart and places them in His care, for His glory. In His hand they are transformed into lights of hope – the offspring as it were, of this marriage.
Death into life. New creation. Light from darkness. Beauty from ashes… Therein lies the hope, the peace, the joy that sustains and gives strength for the future.
It has become more than cliché to say, “I don’t know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future.”
I may not always be able to share my present with those whom I cherish on earth, but I can and will always share it with Him.