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Article: RESPONDING to Broken Hopes and Shattered Dreams
- Article from:
- The African American Pulpit
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Psalm 137:1, NEB
By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.
Romans 15:25a, KJV
Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you.
Have you ever experienced standing helplessly by as one of your children or someone else dropped some of your expensive chinaware on the floor? As you stood there watching your dishes shatter into pieces, what did you feel? What did you say? Weren't you extremely upset?
Life is sometimes like that. It presents us with broken things. Often life presents us with broken hopes and shattered dreams. Sometimes we experience some of our fondest hopes and dearest dreams breaking and shattering just when we thought that they were ...