Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Dear God,

I couldn't help but be hopeful when I read the words of Isaiah, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  See I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."  I was hooked the minute I read these words this morning.  I felt hope budding up within me.

There have been numerous times when my faith dipped and my hope stumbled.  Things looked impossible.  I walked in darkness.  But then seemingly out of nowhere, I began to see the light shining in the darkness, first a crack here and later a small window opening. I knew then and I know now you were doing a new thing all over again.

As humans we give up hope deeming a situation impossible to change.  When we can't see our way around things we fall into our own gloom and doom.  While we may give up, you do not.  You continue to work offering mercy, light and hope.  And if we give you even the smallest chance of transformation, things can shift and the impossible may just lead us to something new.  That's why right now I can stand with Isaiah and say myself, "See God is doing a new thing.  He is doing it in me!"

Thank you

for living hope,

Amazing God.

Thank you

for your

steadfast attention

to our dilemma.

Thank you

for ways

in our wilderness

and streams

in our wasteland.

Yours now and forever, Andrea