# Finding Hope: A Message in a Bottle

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- Published: 2026-02-22T23:37:44-05:00
- Author: Heidi Dare Turner Jenkins

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?

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