Anchored Hope
Hebrews 6:19
Death is difficult.
Remaining on this side of Heaven leaves us with feelings we usually try to avoid. Feelings of sadness and loss, grief and longing.
These are the result of love. If there is no love, there is no feeling of loss, of grief.
Often we try to rationalize these feelings away. When someone older passes, even unexpectedly, there is a certain comfort we find knowing they lived a full life with experiences and relationships. It makes their death have value because their life had value. It doesn’t make the grief go away, but it does make it easier to swallow, to move forward.
But what do we do when we loose a young adult who has yet to find themselves? Or a child barely into life experiences?
What about when we loose someone who isn’t even born?
How do families move forward?
This is where it is easy to allow life to knock us off course. That blow that hits us unexpectedly that we weren’t braced to protect ourselves delivers us into a spiral of depression that we cannot pull ourselves out of. Where no lights shine and there is seemingly no end of sorrow.
It is really easy to get stuck there. To wallow in misery.
And I mean there, not here. Because I was there, but I am no longer. It is not my present location.
You see I had a way out. I had it all along. An anchor that kept me from getting lost in the storm and provided a way out. That anchor is hope.
But not just any hope. Not just a chance or a possibility or even a wish but a guaranteed hope built on a promise that was sealed in blood.
Do you have a anchor to handle the blows this life throws at you? A hope that is strong and trustworthy to pull you up out of those storms?
Mine is named Jesus.
This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. Hebrews 6:19
This verse is the foundation of Anchored Soul. It encompasses exactly what we want to share with families spiraling after loss. We have been there and we can give you this anchor of hope to pull you out. We want to allow Jesus to heal families from the inside where it hurts the most and establish that anchor so those blows won’t allow you to be trapped again.
It is not a promise of no pain, or that the blows won’t come. Rather, it is a hope to endure the blows still standing.