by Joanne Wiklund
My day begins often with time at my dining room table coloring in my inspirational color books. It helps my hand muscles function better for other things, builds new synapses in my brain and lets me ease into my morning praying for other people.
Well, at least that’s my intent! This morning when I opened a color book titled “Color Me Blessed” I flipped through to see where I needed to work. I don’t color page by page, making sure each page is completed before I quit. I move through the book with a color I choose, picking places in designs where I think that color needs to be. It’s fun to see what the final pages look like.
Green is often one of my first choices in a new book, because these designs are scripture with flowers and animals. I have different sets of gel pens I use so I have lots of choices. The page I picked today said “HOPE” in the middle of the page. I thought, “What color is Hope?” That question drove me to my topical Bible where I checked scriptures on HOPE. No reference to any color there.
I thought, Hope might be blue. “Blue skies, smiling on me, nothing but blue skies do I see.” People may have their own color of Hope. A banker might really like green, a sailor, those blue skies. We must choose our hope and choose our own color. I ask you, “What color is your HOPE?” Where do you find your HOPE?
Psalm 145:5 “Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.”
Psalm 71:5 “Thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth. 14. I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”
Titus 1:2. “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”
