Sometimes life pulls us away from our hope. We get busy. We’re distracted. We’re extremely forgetful. Trials and difficulties abound, and our hope gets lost in the middle.
Other times, we lose hope because we’re wading through dark seasons, through the deepest whys.
I remember one such season. We were in the middle of a move, living in an apartment until our new house was finished. We had just left the church we called home for a decade. We had to say goodbye to our dogs. And then my young, healthy friend ended up with cancer.
I remember sitting in the driver’s seat of my car. My husband called and said her fight was over.
It was the day before Valentine’s Day.
I scratched hows and whys on black and white pages, in blood red ink mixed with tears. How wide and deep was this why…
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Thank you for this post. Because He lives that is why we have Hope.
You are blessed Angela.