Telling a New Story

Set up signposts to mark your trip home. Get a good map. Study the road conditions. The road out is the road back. [...] God will create a new thing in this land: A transformed woman will embrace the transforming God!

Jeremiah 31:21-22 (The Message)
DoS-Ch2_Timeline.jpg

Have you ever wished you had a time machine so you could turn back the calendar a few years and change something? Take back those hurtful words? Escape that bad relationship? Pursue the career you loved?

We may not be able to hop into a time machine, but you do have access to a bit of past-changing magic: remembrance.

Remembrance gives us the grace of distance. Remembrance allows us to re-narrate past trauma or regret without denying the pain. Remembrance asks us to willfully and thoughtfully re-tell our good/hard stories with a bolded-underlined-all-caps emphasis on the hidden treasure and the triumph.

We can see the thread of truth through the hard circumstances because we’ve been told the realest, deepest, truest story of all—the overarching Christ story that re-narrates death as the mere prologue to resurrection.

What we remember teaches our brains what to expect. By remembering the past thoughtfully, we can anticipate the future with hope. The past is immutable; however, the way we engage the past now—in the present—is totally up to us.

Jay Wolf

Jay Wolf is a husband, father, speaker, author, advocate, and caregiver. While he was finishing law school in California, his wife Katherine suffered a near-fatal brainstem stroke. In the years since, Katherine and Jay have used their second-chance life to disrupt the myth that joy can only be found in a pain-free life through their speaking and writing. Jay and Katherine live in Atlanta, GA, with their two sons.

https://www.hopeheals.com
Previous
Previous

Invisible Wheelchairs