Dear Family & Friends,
It comes with tremendous sadness that I am writing this post, which will be short and bittersweet.
Our family has been struck with tragedy (not the beginning of a new year I had anticipated). As with any journey, I am faced with a decision about which path to take conducive to healing & growth. My heart has suffered an unimaginable blow and the numbness I feel is most likely the protective hands of God as He carries me through the intensity of this storm. Even as I’m typing these words to you, I feel the tightness in my chest struggling for every breath and the wells of salt water in my eyes run so deep I wonder sometimes if there’s an ending to this utterly painful despair.
To all of you who are reading this, I want you to know I love you very much and I would appreciate your intercessory prayers. I don’t have the strength to share details with anyone and really just desire to nestle in with my immediate family to find the comfort I know God has for me there.
Your comments and words of comfort are treasured and needed. At this time along this journey, I must direct my thoughts and attention to where I’m needed most. I am saying goodbye for now, but not for good. As I take this little sabbatical away, please know I will continue to read your blog posts every chance I get because your words are food for my soul.
I am so thankful for my God and so grateful He can take what is intended for evil and create something monumentally grand from it. My hope is in the Lord and though the pain runs deep, I do look forward with great anticipation to see what He will do with our circumstances…
Serendipity… this is my one-word resolution this year. God will take these moments of devastations and turn them into “happy accidents” & “God-winks” to remind me yet again of who holds the control handles of life… Thank-you, Jesus!
Love to you all <3
Marisa
It was very hard to click “like” on this post. I mean it only in that I am glad you wrote it.
You know you have my thoughts and my prayers with you through this all.
I know what I am thinking might be wrong and none of those three ideas sit well with me at all.
If you feel up to it soon, please use my personal email and share your tragedy.
If you can’t, I understand.
Love to you and yours,
Scott
Thank-you, Scott for your special friendship… I treasure it in my heart.
Marisa, I’ve just recently gotten to know you. We have never met face to face but you are my friend. I swelled up with tears as I read you blog, hearing the pain in you as you write. You are in my prayers. You know you have a friend here who can listen if you ever need to talk. Please keep us posted. Love, ~Di
Thank-you, Di! Your kind words mean so much. It’s comforting to know I have my spiritual family all around me to bring solace during this difficult time.
Marisa, My heart was aching as I read your words & felt your pain. Please know you & yours are in my prayers. I don’t need to know what is going on because God does & He will hear my prayers & your heart cry. Please know you are loved & prayed for. Love, hugs & prayers, sistah!!!!
Thanks, Debbie! You’ve always been such an encourager… I covet your prayers for me and my family.
Marisa, as you nestle with your family, I pray that you continue to feel the peace God can provide as He nestles you all in His love!
Thank-you, Becky! You are such a blessing and your prayers are so appreciated.
Oh Marisa, I am so sorry for whatever it is that you are going through. My heart is still thumping as I read your blog for the 2nd time just to believe what I was reading. I am so thankful for your precious friendship and the bond that we have shared being sisters in Christ. Be rest assured that you and your family are, and will continue to be in my heartfelt prayers. Hugs and love.
Marisa,
I am so sorry. Know that you and yours will be in my constant prayers. Praying God’s continued peace, strength and wisdom. Big hug and lots of love. Rhonda
Thank-you, Rhonda… you’ve always been a source of love and strength.
Thank-you, Lola! I’m so grateful you’re my sister and for your prayers.
No words, only prayers. So sorry.
Thanks, Susan (my soul sister)! Prayers are all we need…
Hi Marisa. I just came across your site. Even though we have never met, you are still family (my sister in Christ). I felt your pain as I read your blog and just wanted you to know that I said a prayer on your behalf. You will persevere through Christ!
Melissa, your words today quenched my thirst and warmed my soul! Thank-you so much for stopping by and for your kind words. It’s such a blessing to me… beyond words that I can have soul sisters all over this world! I look forward to many more chats with you. You are welcome over here in my neck of the woods anytime
Thank-you for your prayers and words of encouragement… You are a treasure!
Marisa – I am so sorry for whatever it is you are going through. I will pray. Hope to cross paths with you again soon. Much love in Christ Jesus!
Thank-you, Jeannette! I’m so thankful we’ve grown to become blog buddies! You are such a precious spirit… God has blessed me so much through the kind words, care & concern of others. We are continuing along this journey the best way we know how and we’ve seen miracles along the way. SO thankful God is the one with the control handles! We can rest assure knowing all things will work together for the good… praise Jesus for that promise & for intercessory prayer! Hugs my friend!
My thoughs and prayers are with you.
I do not know how it occured that I am not following you and I am sorry that I missed this post. I will catch up and I have corrected this and am following you again as I should have been all along!!
I wrote a journal about all the serendipitous events in my life, uncanny, amazing things, coincidences, odd defying events, and THERE ARE SO MANY! The first when I was six years old. The latest in Buenos Aires this month when I walked into a dress store and met a man who was there for God only knows WHAT reason, who was a urologist at the hospital where I was born in San Diego 56 years ago, and where my daughter and son were born, and where I get my healthcare. His son works in Salk Institute near where I grew up and he is estanged from him. He was as stunned as I was. I didn’t get his name and this is often how it goes.
There are many more events that are even more uncanny. Like the auto accident my children and I should not have survived.
Coincidences, I think may be little peeks at God. Everyone needs to take note of them, examine them, see if there is a pattern. I know they happen more in my life when I make changes in myself for the better.
I am so glad that you commented on my recent post which must mean things are better for you. I am off now to read what I missed.
Sending everything positive, hopes, prayers, your way, as I know many people have been doing……