The Adventure Did Not End With the Loss
Summer at the Movies | Monday Reflection | Week 2
"Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." — Isaiah 46:4
"Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." — Isaiah 46:4
Sunday you heard about Carl Fredricksen who spent years sitting in a house full of memories, holding onto what was instead of reaching for what could be. His adventure was always supposed to happen. He just kept postponing it until the grief made the postponing feel permanent.
Most of us have something we stopped reaching for after a significant loss. Not just a person. A season. A version of the future that we had pictured clearly and then watched dissolve. A dream that got attached to someone or something that is no longer here. And when they left the dream felt like it left with them.
But Isaiah says God will carry you. Not God carried you through the hard part and now you are on your own. Will carry. Present tense. Active. Still moving. Still sustaining. Still holding someone who thinks the best part of the story is behind them.
The adventure Carl was supposed to have did not die with Ellie. It was waiting for him on the other side of his grief. He just had to be willing to leave the house.
This week, name the dream you attached to something you lost. Not to minimize the loss. The loss was real. But ask honestly whether you buried the dream alongside it when maybe God was not finished with either of you.
He is still carrying you. The house does not have to be the end of the story.
Most of us have something we stopped reaching for after a significant loss. Not just a person. A season. A version of the future that we had pictured clearly and then watched dissolve. A dream that got attached to someone or something that is no longer here. And when they left the dream felt like it left with them.
But Isaiah says God will carry you. Not God carried you through the hard part and now you are on your own. Will carry. Present tense. Active. Still moving. Still sustaining. Still holding someone who thinks the best part of the story is behind them.
The adventure Carl was supposed to have did not die with Ellie. It was waiting for him on the other side of his grief. He just had to be willing to leave the house.
This week, name the dream you attached to something you lost. Not to minimize the loss. The loss was real. But ask honestly whether you buried the dream alongside it when maybe God was not finished with either of you.
He is still carrying you. The house does not have to be the end of the story.
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