Leading Hearts May June 2018

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by Þaundra dalton-Þmith WWW.ICHOOSEMYBESTLIFE.COM

hope is healing Hope holds on to the belief that a positive outcome is possible. It does not focus on the circumstances leading to a need for hope, but rather it focuses on the good yet to be found.

I WALKED INTO THE ICU WAITING ROOM HOPING NO ONE WOULD BE THERE. I had no desire to have the conversation that would follow. Doctors love life and despise death. We minister in healing, but sometimes the healing we seek does not occur on this side of heaven.

Sometimes healing comes on God’s terms, and those terms may not align with our desires. It’s during these times that hope becomes a lifeline needed to stabilize the shaking of the soul.His soul was already reverberating in the pain of letting go. Wife, soul-mate, lover, friend; everything she once was being stripped away one layer at a time. An unpeeling of a life in the midst of disease. He saw me as I entered the waiting

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