Patience, Experience, Hope.

Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope. – ROM. 5, 3,4.

 

My grandmother on occasion would say when she heard bad news or of someone’s troubles – “No good can come from that.” I have learned though that sometimes what seems to be the world coming to the end, may in time and with the right attitude, become something good or “some good did in fact come from that.” Patience, leading to experience, leading to hope works miracles.

 

When the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can foresee “no good coming from” a situation – it is still possible to believe that God’s tender mercy will bring light to the darkness of the moment. Our duty, though sometimes trodden with heavy heart, is to continue on with God’s work. In this patient, though uncheered obedience, be gain experience and ultimately hope. Our soul gathers force.

 

 

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.