HOPE FOR THE PAST TOO

Robert Frost (1874-1963) poet:

Someone asked Robert Frost, toward the end.
Do you have hope for the future?

“Yes, and even for the past, he replied, that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was, something we can accept, mistakes made by the selves we had to be, not able to be, perhaps, what we wished, or what looking back half the time it seems we could so easily have been, or ought… The future, yes, and even for the past, that it will become something we can bear.”

“But now you belong to Christ Jesus, and though you once were far away from God, now you have been brought very near to him because of what Jesus Christ has done for you with his blood.” (Ephesians 2:13)

The past is under the blood, the present is under the blood and the future is under the blood. Our Lord has got us covered. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

I know, because Jesus left the ninety-nine and looked and found this one lost sheep and brought me back.

“For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.” Jesus