Emphasis Preaching Journal

We all have times when our life's passage becomes difficult. I've certainly had times when this has been so. I remember one particularly painful and confusing period and a man who helped me through it. The day was an unusually down day and the press of what seemed an overwhelming set of circumstances was more than I could bear. A verbatim account of what this man said to me I could not now give, but essentially he said I would find my way through this labyrinth of confusion. Like Abraham, this man "believed and hoped, even when there was no reason for hoping ..."