Heart Hope by Olga

A young woman enters the airplane with a new diamond ring on her finger. She had just received the engagement ring and was excited about her new position in life. She put her luggage in the overhead compartment in first class since there was no room in the economy section then took her seat in coach.  The doors had been shut and the flight attendants had been asked to prepare the cabin for takeoff when the young woman made a horrifying discovery—her ring was missing. She knew she had worn it and that it was on her finger when she boarded the aircraft. A flight attendant made an announcement for everyone to search the floor of the plane to see if we could find the missing ring. Heads were turning every direction, bodies leaning over and bags being moved to help this distressed young lady, but no ring was found. The plane had begun moving when the flight attendant thought to check and see if the ring had come off when the bag was placed in the overhead compartment. Cheers and clapp...

Since Monday was a day of reflection, I’m still thinking about how we all need to look back not just on the men and women who have sacrificed their lives for our country, but we also need to look back on the times and people in our personal lives that have made a difference. These are the things that can give us hope in our times of trouble. If we have seen God’s faithfulness in the past, we can trust that He will be faithful to us in our current struggles. In the Bible when Joshua was leading the people into the Promised Land by crossing the parted waters of the Jordan River, he instructed one person from each of the 12 tribes to pick up a rock from the river bed. They set the stones up as a memorial so that when people saw it and asked about it, they would be told the story of how God had miraculously shown His power in guiding Israel during the time in the desert. In the Old Testament, the wise prophet Samuel set up a stone and called it Ebenezer when God came to the rescue of Israe...