Time Doesn’t Heal Hurts, It Teaches You to Live With Them
It is great to be back. After a week away from the chatter of social media, I feel refreshed. But this time off was about more than just the need to unplug, it was a time to acknowledge an important anniversary and to honor the heaviness in my heart.
And I came to realize that time doesn’t heal the heart; rather, time teaches you how to live with the losses and how to keep moving forward.
My time of reflection also came at the start of the Lenten season — those 40 days that the faithful are invited to enter into the wilderness and walk with Jesus to the cross of Good Friday, where on the other side of death, waits new life. I couldn’t think of a better time of year to think about death and life, and everything in between.
So thank you my friends for patiently waiting for a new video. And thank you for being part of Olde Stone Well Farm!
How are you observing the season of Lent? What anniversaries make you move more slowly and make you remember a time gone by? I would love to hear from you.
Blessings!
accidental country pastor 
Thank you for sharing your memories and your vulnerabilities. Your message of moving forward and through pain and hurt means a lot to me. Blessings and peace to you during this Lenten season.
Nancy
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And blessings to you!! We are finally getting an earlier spring here in Vermont. I was looking at the videos from the past two years and this time of year there was still so much snow. Of course, I am sure we will get another storm or two in March! Blessings to you!
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Because of the darkness in the world along with all the political upheaval in our own country, I am having problems with Lenten devotionals that our church subscribed to this year. The sadness and darkness of these passages are just too traumatizing for me right now. I know Easter Sunday is coming, with a jubilant Hallelujah. That will be my focus.
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You are not the only one who is feeling that way this Lent. Too much sadness and death. But beyond is the jubilant Hallelujah! I will join you in focusing on that!! Blessings.
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What a great message. So sorry for your loss. The month of February is a hard month for me too. It is the month that my daughter and I both have our birthday. She passed in January just shy of her birthday as you know. So January is her heaven Birthday.
Time heals all pain is an old wives tale. I say “But God … up out of the ash” that is what I say to others who have lost. We have a mountain here in WA state that blew in 1980 and it was a devistation to the land, animals, ecology and people too. But God… up out of the ash. Eventually up grew the first plant, a wild flower called the Lupine. When there was nothing left on the land, no nutrients not even soil, just ash. Then because of it more were able to get nutrients from it. You see it did not grow from the soil where all was lost from the blast. It grew from nitrogen fixation – it grew from what it got from above. As a chain reaction, the land began to recover. Not to be the same but to be new and beautiful.
You do a beautiful job with your ministry Donna, You have encouraged me over the years. You were even there for me when my pastor died and then my daughter just weeks apart. You could understand and relate. You and your your faith are much appreciated. I look forward to your encouraging messages.
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Karen, I loved what you said about “out of the ashes.” And how powerful an illustration you have had firsthand with seeing the plants return after the eruption of the mountain. God is good…even in our most trying times, God’s goodness never falters. I pray you are well and that I do think of you often, remember the losses you shared and how fresh they were when we first met. Blessings to you!! (And I am in awe with the years that have gone by!)
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