I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
- Jeremiah 29:11 (NRSV)
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I try and keep the words from Jeremiah 29:11 close at hand or heart - around , where I will see them often, in my briefcase and at my desk at home or work. If I'm blitzing down the freeway, or trying to make a point on the web at an atheist site or reaching my middle age or getting ready to set a young son sail on his own. Broken and frozen water pipes. Having a cyberfriend I know loose his faith and his dealing with suicide. Now what?
God's word comes into my life, "I know the plans I have for you .. to give you a future with hope." As I meet each day and its challenges and as I travel through the ups and downs of daily tests in the world it helps me to remind myself
that whatever happens, God's future for me is one filled with hope.
Husker
