BRINGING US HOPE

BRINGING US HOPE


Today we TALK ABOUT
The PRESENTATION of Jesus
At the TEMPLE


And the BRINGING OF HOPE
To all people


“And coming forward
At THAT very TIME........” Luke 2:38


When Mary and Joseph
PRESENTED their child
In the temple
SIMEON entered the scene


And Luke tells us
That the HOLY SPIRIT
Was upon Simeon


“........and the Holy Spirit
Was on him=
It had been revealed
To him
By the Holy Spirit


That he would NOT DIE
UNTIL he had seen
The Lord's Messiah” Luke 2:25-26


Simeon took Jesus
In his arms


And prophesied
That Mary's heart=
Would be slashed


Like a sword's wound
Because of
The child's FUTURE PERIL


What a HARSH BLOW
To a young
MOTHER'S HEART


But I wonder
If Mary knew of
The HOPE he would
BRING to us all


BRINGING US HOPE!


“PUT your HOPE
In God


For I will yet
Praise him
My Savior-and my GOD” Psalm 42:5


“But those who
HOPE in the Lord
Will renew their strength” Isaiah 40:31


“For in this HOPE-
We are saved


But HOPE that is seen
Is NO HOPE at all=
Who HOPES for
What they already have?” Romans 8:24


The LIFE of Jesus-
The death of Jesus-
Would bring HOPE
To us all-because of
THE RESURRECTION


And then there was Anna-
LIVING in the TEMPLE
For decades--------
Appearing on the scene


Her PRAISE for Jesus' life
BALANCED Mary's pain
WITH HOPE


The PROMISE of HOPE
That Jesus' life brings


“........and a BETTER HOPE
Is introduced
By which we
DRAW near to God” Hebrews 6:19


And because of Jesus
We can look at
Own personal lives


We can BALANCE the
Painful episodes of our lives
With the GIFT OF HOPE


Because of the the LIFE of Jesus
BRINGING US HOPE


BALANCING pain with HOPE
For all of MANKIND


In Jesus' name=and in the name of our HOPE GIVING FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
12-29-19




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.