Bridge Called Hope by Kim Meeder

Author:Kim Meeder [Meeder, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-56225-8
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2012-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

While contemplating all that had happened, it occurred to me that, just like our once unwanted and unloved property, trees, horses, and kids, so too this horse had come to us in a “superficial” state of disrepair. If she were truly revealed today as all that she would become tomorrow—just like our property, trees, horses, and kids—I would be completely unable to afford her; I would have no access into her life. It was precisely her “ugliness” that became the common key.

It was precisely my “ugliness phase,” the season of time in my life when I was struggling to grow through the tragic loss of both my parents, that prepared my heart for all that was to come. I didn’t realize it then, but that was the time when I was being “readied” to reach out to those around me who were struggling through their own “ugly phases.”

Perhaps the most important thing to remember about an “ugly phase” within ourselves and those around us is that it’s just that … a phase. It has a beginning and an end.

A phase can be much like the burned-up pine trees that Troy was once dispatched to take to the dump. Even though they had been through a fire and looked completely dead, when he scratched their bark … they were still green inside. While blackened and destroyed on the outside … they were still alive on the inside. Troy saw what they could become if given the opportunity to grow through their blackness. With time and care these same “throw-away” trees have grown through their charred past and grace our property with beauty to this day. I am so intensely grateful that in the times of my life when I was blackened and dead on the outside … the Lord did not cast me away; He knew that there was life within me still.

What an incredible honor and privilege it has been to follow the lead of my Lord and reach through the flames to pull out those who might temporarily be a little blackened and ugly on the outside, while knowing for a fact that there is life within them still. Just like me many years ago, what they needed most was a helping hand and someone to truly see them and believe in all that they could become.

It was the largest horse rescue in Oregon’s history. And I was proud to be driving home with the most desperate, blackened, ugly horse of the entire herd. She was just like me … and I couldn’t wait to see all that she was to become.

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