Believe and Hold On
Read: Proverbs 17:17, 18:24
I have been looking over the cards
that have been sent to me these past months, and find there are
several that bear a second or even third look.
I share a couple of them with you in
this devotional thought.
First a word of explanation. The
first card is from a friend who has left us to go to that Other World
– Mary Hicks Good served on the General Board of Global Ministries
at the same time as I did. There were others from the Detroit Annual
Conference who also were in New York at that time, Tom Robinson, Jim
Craig, Tony Shipley - to name a few. Then we all seemed to go our own
ways.
Mary and I reconnected about three
years ago, at a New Year’s Eve service at St. Timothy’s Church in
Rosedale Park, and we kept in touch over these past years.
These are the words from her last
card to me.
“BELIEVE in the promise of each
new day, and the HEALING, HOPE, AND BEAUTY a single moment can hold.”
(No author’s name given) and is a great thought for every day.
The second card comes from friends
who, thankfully, are still with us. They borrowed these words from
James Baldwin, “The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment
we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us, and the light
goes out.”
They also added these personal
words, which are appropriate for these days.
“We are thankful that you have
touched our lives. We continue to hold fast to that which binds us
together, and we will live with the assurance of Emmanuel.”
Certainly each of us have words that
have come to us in the form of cards, or notes, or a personal touch.
And during these times, when there is more trouble in the world than
we want to look at each day, we need to think of the cards that tell
us to Believe, and to hold on to each other.
Lois Leineke
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