Your heart
can be fixed.
Even if your whole world has broken apart.
Let me show you what 23 years of taking care of my wife with a traumatic brain injury has taught me about being a man and a Christian and fixing broken things.
Even if your whole world has broken apart.
Let me show you what 23 years of taking care of my wife with a traumatic brain injury has taught me about being a man and a Christian and fixing broken things.
My life was changed forever on a sunny Wednesday morning on January 29, 2003. A truck ran a red light and rammed my wife's minivan at 40 miles an hour causing a multi-car pile up. Every single person from that violent crash walked away, including our three year old daughter.
All but one: Becky, my beautiful wife. She sustained a devastating and permanent traumatic brain injury. What came next was not a season to get through. What came next was the rest of our life.
That was twenty three years ago. Somewhere in that time I realized that, no matter how hard I prayed, Becky would never be un-brain injured. My daughter would never have her mother. I would never have my wife. All of that was gone. My family was broken. My heart was broken and always would be.
Or would it?
About a year ago, reading the Psalms, I began to observe how David met the great adversities of his life. In Psalm 57, David writes:
And a light bulb went on in my soul. I stopped asking God to fix my family and I started asking God to fix me.
To fix my heart. To fix my heart like David's heart was fixed. That's what this book is about. Being fixed God's way.
One caution: I get very real in this book. Life can be brutal and I think those details matter. But here's what 23 years have taught me: While the circumstance of your life may be unfixable, your heart is not.
And a fixed heart fixes everything. Literally everything. Not by mending what was broken, but by re-making the man in whose chest it beats.
Psalm 57 was written by David in a cave. Hunted, cornered, no way out, the unfixable place. And from inside it he says something shocking: "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed."
So that's how I tell my story. I take you through the first year after Becky's accident, the hardest year of my life, laid right beside David in his cave, verse by verse.
Here's the thing: a fixed heart isn't handed to you in the good times. It's forged in the cave while you're face down on the ground in the dark. That's where David found his. It's where I found mine.
I believe it can be where you'll find yours.
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Jim is able to speak to your group on the subject of A Fixed Heart. The themes he touches on include:
How a man faces the unfixable. What a man does when his world breaks and it is not going to be put back the way it was. A walk through Psalm 57, for men.
Strength for the man who stays. Manhood under a hardship with no finish line, and what real strength looks like when you cannot muscle your way out.
Caregiving, endurance, and staying when leaving would be easier. Faithfulness when there is no win coming.
A good fit for men's ministries, church services, men's retreats, and caregiver and marriage groups. Length and format shaped to your room, from a small group to a Sunday gathering.
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