Growing in the Hard Places

Linking up with  Charlotte at  Spiritual Sunday  and Laura at Brag on Fridays and Daily Walk in Grace

"I was confused. You cleared my mind. I sold my soul. You bought it back for me and held me up and gave me dignity. You gave me hope when I was at the end and turned my lies back into truth again. You even called me friend." Anne Murray

Hope -  It's the most important thing a person can have. Anyone can get by with few creature comforts....and even little food......but nobody can make it without hope. 

Hope is what has always kept me going no matter how pitch black it got....or how desperate. 
Hope.....it's the thing that kept me holding on when it all seemed so pointless.
Hope....it came from Him.....a tiny flickering hope....that pushed me to hold on.....and never give up....even when so many of my friends were dying around me. 

Hope....it came in a stranger's smile....and even a small flower growing in a rocky place. I want to tell everybody who'se fighting a tough battle...don't ever give up....keep holding on and hope....believe.  Things really do turn around.....

Below is a trailer my dgt made for me last year. I posted it before but in writing my friend's story.....it reminds me how much He reaches out to all of us....sometimes in small ways...sometimes big.....to give us the hope we need so we don't give up.

Spiritual Sunday. "Don't Ever Give Up"

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Christmas day my girls and I helped out all day serving people who had no one to share the day with.  I heard so many stories from people struggling with illness, loss, lonliness....Even reading some blogs...reading about some of you guys going through some tough stuff.. I wanted to encourage you.  When I was on the streets, shooting dope, throwing up, kidnapped, trapped, raped....not believing anyone cared....someone came along and told me...don't you ever give up. I wanted to. I really did. I wanted to give in to the darkness, to the hatred...but He wouldn't let me. So today, I just want to encourage those of you who are struggling to hang on....He sees - He knows....And He'll take you through.