I've thought a lot about "hope" since I posted my last blog entry just a few days ago. I took time tonight to look through mail after a few days away visiting family in Indy. One newsletter reports of orphaned children in Nigeria whose parents were murdered in the midst of religious conflicts. A Christian agency provides food, shelter and education at a center where they live and study. The director of the center says, "There can always be hope, even in seemingly hopeless situations."
Then on a website today I read of a village in Zambia where a Christian organization purchased a well drilling rig to provide the people with healthy and accessible water. A pastor touched the water that gushed up out of the earth and said, "This is Resurrection day - we have been resurrected to hope when we had none."
Jesus . . . a father to the fatherless.
Jesus . . . living water.
Jesus came to bring hope to the world.
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