By Jessilyn Lancaster
HGTV FIXER UPPER star Jenny Marrs says her daughter’s sickness on a Good Friday years ago gave her insight into the heart of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.
“On this Good Friday, the darkest day in the history of mankind, I am reminded of another Good Friday, twelve years ago, when we were still stuck in our adoption wait and our daughter was hospitalized and very sick half a world away,” Marrs began her Instagram post.
“I was helpless to comfort her. I was helpless to care for her. I was helpless to calm her fears. I was broken and longing to be there holding her,” Marrs continued.
“My heart was aching and I was given a glimpse into a unique component of the crucifixion story. I was able to identify like never before with the heart of Mary. As she watched on as her perfect and spotless son was tortured and crucified, I can only imagine that she was helpless, aching, and shattered,” she wrote.
The renovation reality star continued: “She knew since that first meeting with the angel, that this day would come. She knew He was never really hers. She knew He was the Son of God, the Savior and King for all. Yet, her heart was that of a momma. I can assume that her heart looked on with fierce love as her baby was hurting and her arms longed to reach out and wrap Him in her embrace. To provide comfort. To protect Him from the pain.”
The Bible tells us in John 19 that Mary stood at the foot of the cross as her Son took on the sins of mankind.
Mary had known since Gabriel told her she would have a baby that this moment would come, that Jesus would fulfill the prophecies given hundreds of years before.
“Even still,” Jenny Marrs wrote of Mary, “Despite the pain she would inevitably face, she stepped into the story she was offered with great faith and immense hope. She knew that, in her humanity, she would be unable to see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end {Ecclesiastes 4:11}. This is the very essence of faith.”
After Christ ascended into Heaven, Mary’s work was not complete.
In Acts 1, she joins the Disciples in the Upper Room to help select the man to replace Judas after he betrayed Jesus.
Like Mary, Jenny Marrs knows hope is on the horizon.
“Sunday is on the way, friends. Hold on,” Marrs concluded.
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