Yet...
David defeated the giant and saved his city. Tiny, young David took out the largest man using a slingshot and a stone.
It shouldn't have worked, but it did.
Sara and Abraham were way past childbearing years, yet they had a son whose descendants were more than the stars in the sky.
It shouldn't have worked, but it did.
God takes the impossible and makes it possible.
In all things.
In all ways.
Whether we understand it or not, He does. That is all we need to know.
Why? Because of a man. A man who doesn't make sense on paper.
He is silver-haired, I'm just starting to get there.
He is suburbs, and I am country.
He is laughter, I am tears.
He is artsy, I am not.
He is a singer, I am a hummer.
He has struggles, where I have strength.
He has strength, where I have struggles.
He knows loss, I know loss.
He loves Jesus with all that he is, I love Jesus with my entire life.
He forgot how to dream, I reminded him.
He treats me like his queen, I treat him like my king.
Are you ready to throw up yet? We are fricking cute together. I feel so much peace with him. I feel like I'm home in his arms. Like there really is hope out there for an unlikely pair such as ourselves.
Hope.
Wesley, that's his name, and I went away to Ohio to visit the Ohio State Reformatory where Shawshank Redemption was filmed. The night before, we watched the movie. I hadn't seen it since I held a vigil on my bed with Ted while he was passing away. You see, that was his favorite movie.
One thing that I never picked up before was how Andy Dufrain brought hope to so many men. Andy was a banker, imprisoned erroneously for a double murder, and made the best out of a terrible situation by helping the guards with their taxes, and fellow inmates through a library. But it was more than that, Andy loved people where they were. He never complained or retaliated when he was targeted. He kept on living the best life he could.
In a conversation between Andy and Red, Andy told Red:
"Fear can hold you, prisoner.
Hope can set you free."
In a letter Andy wrote to Red, he said,
"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
How weird for those two scenes to stand out to me now when I am in a new place in life.
Hope.
Wes and I don't make sense to the world.
Yet.
We have hope.
"For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
"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
Neither Wesley nor myself were looking for each other, yet God brought us together, I think, because of our differences.
Perhaps we are to help others to remember hope.
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