The Secret to Healing
Harvest House offers safe housing, case management, and life-enrichment classes, but the intangibles of our culture make the immeasurable difference.
Society usually measures us by what’s tangible, but what if the secret to healing and wholeness is being connected to who we were always meant to be – before the abuse, the disappointment, before the feelings of failure, or before anxiety governed our life.
Restoration
I keep a couple of old pictures of myself in my kitchen and on my phone. I am leaning forward holding my youngest brother, Matt when he was an infant. You can see the intensity and grit even then.
You can see the unadulterated joy on my face. These pictures keep me grounded in who I am and who I’ve always been – no matter the hardships or disappointments of life. Every time I look at that little girl, I am reminded of my purpose, talents, and abilities, and my hope is renewed.
At Harvest House, we remind people who they are and who they’ve always been. They’ve always been worthy of love, even if their parents abandoned them. They’ve always been capable, even if no one ever told them that they could accomplish anything. Goodness has always existed within them, even if today’s society says otherwise. That is what makes the Harvest House community a place of restoration.
A Beautiful Canvas
People can do more than just recover what was lost. We believe the restoration process is possible, just like an original art masterpiece by Monet.
It’s not thrown out because it’s old and faded, instead, we go to great lengths to restore it to its original luster, and it becomes even more valuable because of all its survived.
This is also true for you, me, and all we meet. If we can bring our original and unique blueprint to the foreground, our life experiences, whether positive or negative, CAN be the color that fills in our blueprint to make it a beautiful canvas reflective of a life well-lived.
We envision Harvest House expanding so no person within our reach journeys through life believing that their mistakes or experiences of trauma define them or their future. When you’ve tasted of this idea, it changes you. Love enters the scene, and all hope is restored. To us, that’s where all this begins – in Love.
Erin E. Minor
Chief Executive Officer
