Hope in the storm

How quickly life can change. I woke up this morning and immediately began making a list of things that I needed to do today. Not unlike most days, but today's list was made up of important and not urgent matters. Usually it's the other way around. That thought alone gave me hope for today.
The first call that began to change the plans for today was concerning a co-worker who has been put in the hospital with stomach pains. Beverly is my right-hand and I depend on her greatly. (Maybe that's what put her in the hospital.) The next call was an unexpected call from a friend, a mother of three, who went to the ER with neck pain and a headache. The doctors decided to do a CAT scan on her brain and discovered a mass in her cranium. She is now being sent to MD Anderson hospital in Houston.
Yes, how quickly life can change. But as always, there is hope. Where God is present hope is also present. No matter what our circumstances hope is what keeps us afloat in a sea of change. I'm in that sea of change right now. So is Beverly and her family, and so is Melanie and her family. And in the boat with us is Jesus. We may think he's sleeping through the storm and doesn't care. That's not true, but it may be how we feel. He looks at us and says, "O you of little faith. Why did you doubt?" Why, indeed!
Hope is here and His name is Jesus. You are not alone. Hope has come. That is the destiny of hope.