How beautiful it is to read God's Word again! As I read and do my QT today, I was so thirsty for it! I was hungry to read it. And the words, though I've read them several times (cos of the markings I have previously made), they stood out and shine amazingly bright to me.

Lamentations 3:19-23
I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

That God's love is the reason we hope. That God's faithfulness is the reason we hope. That in the midst of our showers of tears, God's sunshine will create a rainbow in our lives. That though we may have broken and strained relationships around us, God will never leave us nor forsake us. Because of His love. This is the reason I hope. This is the reason we hope.

It reminds me so much of Ps 13 too. A Psalm that brought me through my hard break-up. Hope brought me through that break-up too. And now, it will bring me through whatever that comes, be it a heart-break or uncertainty of the future.