Merry Christmas. Reaching out to let you know that we are on Christmas Break from December 22, 2025-January 4, 2026. We will be back in the office with normal counseling hours on January 5. It is our prayer that you have a wonderful Christmas season filled with the hope that does not disappoint. Romans 5:5❤️
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There is always, always something to be thankful for.
Hello there and Happy Thanksgiving week!
Please be reminded that our offices are closed for Thanksgiving Monday November 24-Friday November 28th. We plan to be back in the office with regular counseling in person hours on Monday, December 1. We will ask that you hold your admin questions until we are back in the office.
Many of you are aware that our office has been hit by Covid in the last couple of weeks. I started developing symptoms on Tuesday, November 4 and tested positive for Covid thenext week. Rhonda was about two days behind me with symptoms and the two of us have really been knocked sideways by this version of Covid. I have never tested positive for Covid, not even once since the whole thing began. And now I am absolutely sure that I never want to have it ever again. We are so thankful that Lyndsay did not get it!
We need to say thank you to all of you who have been so flexible to go virtual because it was just impossible to be in the office during this Covid invasion. We would both appreciate your prayers for continued healing. We have both tested negative for about a week, but have had some lingering symptoms, such as fatigue and breathlessness. But it really is getting better every day and we are so thankful.
As we’ve been in counseling these last few weeks, I have shared this story about Matthew Henry with many of you. You may be familiar with some of his commentary on the Bible, but I found the story in one of my daily devotions about a day in the life of Matthew Henry (1662-1714), and when he wrote in his journal at the end of the day, and I thought it was profoundly remarkable for us to think about in this season of Thanksgiving.
“Matthew Henry, the great Bible scholar, was once attacked by thieves and robbed of his wallet. He wrote these words in his diary: “Let me be thankful. First, I was never robbed before. Second, although they took my wallet, they didn’t take my life. Third, although they took all I had, it was not much. Fourth, let me be thankful that it was I who was robbed and not I who did the robbing.”
May we follow his example and remember that there is always, always, always something to be thankful for. Ask God to give you a heart this week of thanksgiving, even if things look bad circumstantially. God is truly greater than anything we face in this world.
And we are so thankful for you being part of our Journey to Hope. Happy Thanksgiving from the heart, Susie🍁💛🍂
Office Closed Easter 2025
Hi everyone. Reaching out to let you know that the Journey to Hope offices are closed Friday April 18th and Monday April 20th for the Easter holiday. It is our prayer that you have a blessed Easter. Blessings, Susie🩵
Spring Break
Good morning. We are reaching out to remind you that the Journey to Hope offices will be closed this week. It’s spring break for Stafford and Spotsylvania counties and we are going to be taking that time off as well. The office will be closed from Friday, March 21 through Monday, March 31. I am planning a birthday trip to the beach and I’m also going to travel by my father‘s graveside in Alabama on the way there. I would appreciate your prayers for traveling safety as we head to Florida.
Lyndsay and I will check email and text messages and voicemails in the morning and evening on vacation. If you should need to reach us while we’re away please know that we will try to respond within 24 hours. Please try to hold your admin questions until we return. 723 Thank you. You will remain in our prayers as well. Blessings, Susie.🩵
Happy 14th Anniversary to Journey to Hope
It was a Monday. January 31, 2011. The very first official day of Journey to Hope. It was equally scary and exciting to step out in faith in this new beginning. And now, 14 years later, it is still our message that God is bigger than our dreams and He is bigger than anything we face in this world. That equals
5,114 days, 730 weeks and 4 days, 122,736 hours,
7,364,160 minutes, 441,849,600 seconds. He has proven himself so very faithful.
Thankful for every single person who has believed in us, supported us, sent people our way, been part of our team, and for every client who has journeyed with us and is journeying with us now, always, always toward hope. Blessings, Susie💙
