By India McCarty
Jenny Marrs has a message for anyone going through a hard time this Christmas season.
“Eight years ago, I shared this photo and these words. My weary heart needed to read them again today and maybe someone else’s does too…” Marrs wrote under a photo ornament of daughter Sylvie as a baby. “As I sit by the glow of the tree, steaming coffee in hand, reading about hope and fear and faith… I glance up, right into these eyes.”
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She wrote that the Marrses hung the ornament “with aching, hopeful, anxious, longing hearts,” as Sylvie was still “across an ocean” at the time.
“We didn’t know of the fight in front of us. We didn’t know the days of waiting would turn to months and the months would turn to years,” Marrs continued. “We only knew God called us to say yes to this little girl, yes to an unknown path, yes to hurting and pain and loss and boundless love.”
Marrs relied on Mark 5:36 during this time — “Don’t be afraid. Just trust me.”
“I don’t know what you’re facing today, as we enter the season of Advent and walk toward Christmas Day,” she wrote. “But I know when you are grieving or longing for healing or waiting for your baby or hurting deeply, this season can be harder than most. It can be a reminder, not of the Hope we look to, but of the one miracle or unanswered prayer just out of reach. If you’re in the pain, desperate for Hope, hear His words again: ‘Don’t be afraid. Just trust me.’”
Marrs concluded, “He is faithful and trustworthy. His story for us is never our story for us but it is always good. He has a plan and a purpose and every tear and every moment of waiting and hurting will someday be redeemed. Maybe this side of eternity, maybe not. But someday, it will all be made new. That is the Hope we can cling to.”
The HGTV star recently shared another message celebrating the Advent season, writing about her hopes for “a gentle Christmas.”
“After all, we celebrate gentleness embodied — a baby born in humble circumstances who grew into a man who described himself as humble and gentle,” Marrs explained. “Join me, let’s walk in those unforced rhythms of grace and fight against the pressures to do more, buy more, be more. May this Christmas be a gentle, humble, and holy one.”
Something else Marrs and husband Dave are celebrating? The seventh season of their hit show, FIXER TO FABULOUS, which is currently airing.
“We get to work with so many different families and they have different wants and different needs and different homes, different style homes, so I really think just the nature of the fact that they’re so unique and different really does keep it fresh,” Jenny told TV Insider. “I think if we weren’t designing a home for a family, if it was just a home that has to be neutral, then it would be repetitive. But we really do try to make each home very specific to who lives there.”
Marrs’ recent words are an encouragement to anyone who might be struggling with grief or other tough situations this Christmas season.
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