Over four years ago, we had a fence installed in our backyard. The workmen inadvertently trampled on and discarded one of my hydrangeas which I mentioned here in a previous post. After searching for weeks, I finally found it forsaken and broken in the woods. I replanted it...a seemingly lifeless twig...and said a little prayer over it that God would breathe life back into it again. As more and more green began to appear, I dubbed it my "Hydrangea of Hope." Well, as Romans 5:5 says, "Now hope does not disappoint..."
Look at it now...it's the one with the most beautiful shade of blue! He, indeed "...who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were” (Romans 4:7), often by way of the Refiner's Fire, makes beauty from ashes (Isaiah 61:3) and all things beautiful in His time (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
"Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." Romans 5:3-5
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