Hope

These words came to me during my devotions last night... gave me a little comfort :-)

In the dark I had lost hope.
In the cold, my heart had turned to stone.
No longer feeling, no longer
lonely--simply empty.

A word from a stranger with a bright, white smile caught me off guard--was it a spark that I felt in my stone cold heart?

A feeling so foreign, I cannot explain began to grow inside my chest, as if a sudden rain began in a desert place.

What was this feeling so foreign? These drops of healing rain on the scarred, cracked surface of my heart?

A word and a smile caught me off guard--the word was so simple...the word was pronouced...Hope.