[Melian]

Re Hoping:

Beautifully written testimony. I learned at five years old that very bad things can happen to good people for no discernible reason. I have a daily reminder of that lesson but I try every day to be hopeful. I know it is a lack of Faith and trust in God that robs me of Hope, and I strive.

[redryder_90]

+++❣

[duckbutt]

Beautifully written testimony. I learned at five years old that very bad things can happen to good people for no discernible reason. I have a daily reminder of that lesson but I try every day to be hopeful. I know it is a lack of Faith and trust in God that robs me of Hope, and I strive.

---

Romans 5:3-5 KJV. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Eh....I really don’t pray for patience —no sense in “asking for trouble” :-) But, sometimes we have unavoidable “painful growth spurts” when it comes to being conformed to the image of Christ —:-)