Hope

I read something interesting very early this morning and I will quote part of it:

"Most of the difficulties of life come because man is so prone to lose heart. When hope has gone, all is over. Failure counts for nothing; defeat, disappointment - these matter nothing at all, so long as only HOPE sits patiently, stirring the embers, watching and tending the fire, coaxing the flame, never despairing and never leaving the wind to work its will. That the clouds should come up over the sky, or that darkness should encircle the earth, brings no real terrors, for we are sure that the dawn will come out again and that the sun will break through with its golden glory."

This was written by a Dominican priest named Bede Jarrett who died in 1934.



Thinking about this early this morning especially after experiencing the emotional results of someone who lost HOPE left me wondering WHY??? Later in the morning I read a line from Psalm 90 (Ps 90: 12):

"Make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart."


I thought about this shortness of life and I said to myself, life is indeed short and the older I get the more I think about something someone told me decades ago....when you lose hope, you have lost it all! That comment always stuck with me along with other comments that someone shared with me.

I have despaired many, many, times in life....but by grace I have never lost HOPE! I have no concept of what it must be like to arrive at a place of NO HOPE....which leaves me still wondering why?

Amazing!

I deserve nothing....but I have it all!!!!!

My Beautiful Dove!

A broken Dove who could not sing because her heart was sad

Has found the song that she can sing and makes her heart so glad.

So spread those wings most beautiful Dove through all the skies of blue

And in the starry night O Dove sing out your song that's true.

Charles Henry and Sarah Elizabeth

Charles Henry June 9, 1954 - September 21, 2008


Sarah Elizabeth March 12, 1958 - July 7, 2010

Bob and my best of friends!!!