Hope
In the Russian prison where Solzhenitsyn was, no one was allowed to speak. There was nothing to read, and no encouragement of any kind to sustain life. He knew that if he tried to eescape he would be shot, but he thought, "At least, that would be the end of that!"
His faith would not allow him to do that, though. When a break in the work day came, he sat under a tree. Just then, a shadow came across the grass. He looked up into the eyes of the neew man who had recently come as a prisoner and saw something he had never seen in any face in prison before - a message of love and concern.
As their eyes locked in silence, the prisinor took a step forward and drew a cross on the ground with a stick. Solzhenitsyn said new hope surged within him at that moment. Jesus does not love me. He is in command. It is not hopeless! Three days later he was released from that prison. He knew with powerful certainty that God is sovereign and there is still hope.
We mustn't give up! We might be the one to communicate hope to someone else, maybe by a gesture, maybe without words. We must love and pray and hold one another up.
Mary C. Crowley
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