Seeds of Hope

What brings you a sense of hope as you go about your days? What has troubled you so much that you felt as though all hope was gone? I think the past couple years might have brought us all to places where we faced a new kind of bleakness. The pandemic, the isolation, were difficult on us all on top of our individual times of coping.

In Psalm 128 the psalmist assures us that from grief and pain we can carry seeds that will sow new hope. I remember as I worked through my grief following my husband’s death having such a strong sense that my future was gone. But as I have healed from that deep...