A Blessing of Hope for Friend

A Blessing of Hope for Friend.

 

Friend, these last few weeks have brought much hope.

 

New International Version (©1984)
And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward."

 

My wife works as a counselor with depressed senior adults and also works with an urban mission assisting elementary children in learning.  Of course, her conversations are in strictest confidence, but she can relay to me to depth of struggle she sees every day.  We hold each other up in prayer and she goes daily into the face of strain to bring hope and healing with the love of Christ.

 

One of my daughters works with development of the largest suicide hotline in our state.  Yes, she hears and sees much pain.  We pray and she goes daily into the face of strain to bring hope and healing with the love of Christ.

 

My other daughter and her husband are emergency foster parents.  That means my wife and I are emergency foster grandparents.  The strain of a drug impacted infant and young children forced to undergo abrupt life changes is daily faced with hope and healing with the love of Christ.

 

Each week, I work to make time to pray with business and community leaders at the Jesus House, a homeless recovery center and outreach to the working poor in our city.  We face our times together with hope and healing in the love of Christ.

 

So many I know take time to reach out and give that hope and healing of Christ on a personal and face to face basis.  It is tough to look into the eyes of strain and struggle and offer hope, but it is right and good and just.  It is good to be surrounded with givers of hope.

 

So where is the hope?  In such days of need in our communities, there is always hope and healing in Christ.  I get to see it every day as family and friends take personal time to impact someone in need.  I get to see the face of Christ shining in their faces. That is a beautiful hope.

 

Prayer:

Father, I pray for Friend this week.  Allow Friend to see the face of Christ in a friend or family member and even in the mirror as the hope of Christ is offered to such as these.  It is our privilege to offer love in tangible action and goods and in words of strong encouragement and love.  Grow in us, Father, that our nation would be exploded with action from individuals and blessed in our communities.  May we never forget that our hands and our face and our actions are a powerful source of hope and healing for many that no other source can provide.  When we are unable to go, give us strength to send hope and healing through encouraging those that can.  When we are faced with the strain and struggle ourselves, send a face of hope and healing to bless us.  Let the peace of God that passes all understanding engage us in Christ Jesus and bring grace sufficient for every situation.

Phil Larson 405-388-8037
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