Every Home Has a Hush

01 Jan

There’s an old Spanish saying that “Every home has a hush” – everyone carries a burden in some form or fashion. But it was the poet Robert Browning Hamilton who suggested that difficulty can be a strong teacher:

“I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow; And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her, When sorrow walked with me.”

(From Focus On The Family Daily Citizen Morning Headlines, February 21, 2020)

Today the world celebrates the permanent passing into oblivion of 2020. We cannot stop time, even if we wanted to, and we cannot go back and change anything from our past. We are only able to go forward in time and to learn from our sorrow. So much the more important, then, to break the power of our past to give us pain. Forgiveness is required in order to accomplish this, sometimes even if it is to forgive yourself.

But do we know how to forgive? Jesus does! He can teach you to by faith, release all that binds you to the pain of your past. He promised “Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matt. 11:28-30).

Come to Jesus and begin your year unburdened and ready to follow Him.