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How to Discover Hope When Seeds of Promises Are Unfulfilled (Guest Post by Hadassah Treu)
Friend, do you wonder how to discover hope when the seeds of promises are unfulfilled? Perhaps you waited many months and years for a specific promise to be fulfilled and now you are weary and discouraged. You doubt God’s Word and His promises and you question...
The Seed
If you dig beneath the frozen hard pack, a seed lies encased in a small earthen capsule. Impatiently, it waits for the warmth of the sun to coax it from the fragile protection of a paper-thin wrap. Stretching and arching, tender leaves burst forth--cracking the...
The Balm of Gilead
The barren places..we all have them. They are the wounded, aching parts left empty; still waiting to be filled. Was your mother critical, self-absorbed, or caught up in a drama so consuming that she overlooked your hurts? Did your father fail to fight for you--abandon...
God’s Sunrise
The Shadow of Death surrounds her like a dark, oppressive fog obscuring the path. Swirling madly about the Woman's feet, the Shadow twists itself round and round--eliminating vision. The Woman gropes her way in the dark. Is there a cliff? Shelter? Will Death overcome...
The Gift of Hope
I read the child's name and my throat constricts. The words seem detached from the page and I wish I could wrap my hand around each letter--crushing the message they bear. Dead. Eight year old. Mother attempted to revive. Pausing, I think of my own children and...
French Toast and Jelly Beans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOksW_NabEk I'm awakened by the sound of my daughter's voice, "I want French Toast, mama." Through sleep-dimmed eyes, I notice she stands next to the bed--a peace-offering in her hands and a wide grin on her freckled face. "I've brought...
The Imperfect Christmas
The imperfect Christmas unfolded like a crumpled piece of gift wrap--its bright colors diminished by the absence of a firstborn son and a father more dedicated to the child than the comforts of home. And I think of the journey he made yesterday in a quest to lavish...
