From suffering to encouragement

"I will turn their mourning into gladness, and I will comfort them, and will give them joy after their sorrows." Jeremiah 31.13

Have you heard of Jaden Hayes ? It's a little boy who had a very difficult start to life. His father died when he was only 4 years old. And just two years after this tragic episode, he will discover the body of his mother, who died in his sleep. Everyone was sorry for him and looked at Jaden with sadness.

God can show you a different way of sadness.

Jaden, tired of seeing so many sad-faced people around him, began to think of a way to make people happy again. He thought that by smiling people around him, they would do the same. Jaden and her aunt, who lived in the city of Savannah in the United States, then began to approach the sad-looking people in the street. The little boy smiled at them and sometimes offered them a little toy.

The media relayed this information and people began sending photos of their own smile to Jaden as well as gifts ... A national movement is even born of this initiative.

One can ask the question : how can a little boy who has lost so much give so much ?

Due to painful circumstances, many of us can totally sink into sadness and isolation. Yet I believe that God can show you a different way, as for Jaden. He can help you go through the trial with your head high with Jesus, with His grace and turn your pain into joy as it says in the Bible ... "I will change their mourning into gladness, and I will comfort them, I will give them joy after their sorrows." Jeremiah 31.13

If this story joins you, do you want to pray with me ?

A prayer for today

"Lord, you see the situation in which I find myself, what I lost, what was taken away from me, it is difficult to live, but I think that you have foreseen a way out for me. me how to act and transform my pain into joy, that I may even become a source of encouragement and blessing for others, Amen."

Eric Célérier

Source (The Thought of the Day)