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🍁💛🍂
