Finding Hope: A Message in a Bottle

Soon parts of me would come together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

Yet completely unaware of how a change was even possible at this time.

This sign, that I found lying on the beach is an answer, a gift of a new hope.

A glowing bottle can contain a message with all the answers to my questions of the past thirty plus years.

I ran down the sand dune to grab the bottle.

I popped the cork to find a message on a scroll- like paper and read the words in desperation…

Today the ocean water was calm while a flock of seagulls fly overhead.

Yet, my story begins with my parents being captured as missionaries by an uninhabited tribe.

This happened in the country where I now live, thirty miles away, thirty plus years ago.

My father wrote a message in a bottle.

It started with these seven words of hope: Only things created by God can heal.

How was he to know that I would find the bottle years later?