Save This...or, Hope's Courage

What inspired today's poem? A mishap, to a friend/church family member who took his family on a long anticipated trip to the other side of the world,to visit his sister's family for  Christmas, and in the first week broke his leg in two places,placing him in a hospital four hours away...please pray that by some miracle he and his wife can join their families for Christmas! A message of praise from a family in our church-family who has endureda journey of sickness and the death of a grandchild... A family in our neighborhood who is learning grueling trust-lessons SO many sick and suffering in our circle of friends and family... SO many sorrowing in our neighbourhood and beyond... So many seeking answers to questions like'What is truth?''God, are you there?' In deep disappointments that vex well-laid planIn struggles no mortal evadesIn sorrows that teach us to love while we canBefore opportunity fadesIn trials we suffer of sickness and painBeneath love's long burdens of careMay we find hope's courage we cannot explainSave this; someone's answer to prayer Janet 🙏 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.