Hope

Hope:

It can be a small stone or a giant boulder

in the middle of life’s never-ending stream.

It can be a place of fearless calm,

 though surrounded by the torrents of

Ever-changing circumstances.

Life won’t stand still but the stone does not budge.

Some may question its placement in the riverbed,

Some may welcome its respite from the noises of life.

Some may try to move it to a more suitable location.

Life won’t stand still but the stone does not budge.

The same waters that coursed around it in days gone by

Have made their way to the sea and back again.

New water and old mix, caressing its base,

But the stone does not budge.

Two strangers, on far, distant banks,

Find comfort and solace in the reminder

That the stone reminds of its Creator in His unwavering purpose

For their good.

Whether big or small, the stone does not budge.