Hope's Blog 🦋

Greatest Test of Faith

Come closer My son

Cloak to cloak I will bear you up

I speak

You listen

Hear

Trust

Obey

The apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatian's, in the scripture, said of Abraham:

"He t

Televisions, radios, smart phones, computers and other tech devices are documenting an upset to the normal routines of life all over the world.  In the past few months, governments swollen with a sudden sense of authoritarian rule, are lording over its people with fearmongering  in what appears to be record speed.  Masks, scarves and bandanas now cover the faces that just weeks earlier bore beautifully content smiles.  Loving hugs and handshakes are now replaced by floor markers separating flesh

I'm holding to hope,      

and hope has a name,

it isn't Mary or Thomas or David or Jane,

Seymore or Thadius or sweet Betty Sue,

Penelope, Woody, Clarissa Magoo.

Hope is the knowing felt deep in your heart,

when the odds are against you and you grope in the dark.

And you can't see the forest for towering trees,

And  you fall over obstacles, skinning both knees.

Hope is the offspring of Faith, Noah's dove.

Her Father is Grace.

So that makes her - Love.

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I penned these simple child-like words in 1999 fol