The pint-sized kindergartener kept heaving the full-size basketball upward towards the goal. The rim was set to seven feet high, but the little girl is only half that tall. Yet there she was, trying over and over to reach the basket.
My wife walked by at some point, unaware just how long the tenacious child had been at it.
Mrs. Duncan: โDid you make a basket?โ
Kindergartener: โNot yet.โ
Itโs uncommonโespecially post pandemicโto find a six-year-old who doesnโt cave under pressure. But this tireless wee lassie๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ was undeterred. Sheโs living proof that hope is indeed a sustainable strategy.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12 (NIV)
I love how the Apostle Peter puts it: โGod has given us new birth into a living hope, through the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fadeโkept in heaven for you.โ 1 Peter 1:3b-4 (NIV)
Kind reader, if weโve totally entrusted our souls to Christ, eternal victory is certain. As a sales manager of mine used to say, โA shot on goal is never a bad play.โ
So, let’s keep shooting.
Thank you for reading. ๐โค๏ธ Prayers and love.
For in this hope we are saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Romans 8:24-25 (NIV)
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