All in Christ’s hand

Lord, my times are in Thy hand; All my sanguine hopes have planned To Thy wisdom I resign, And would make Thy purpose mine. Josiah Conder 1836

“Sanguine hopes,” those cheerful, wishful things that we look forward to, are just the opposite of the “foreboding fears” in Conder’s previous stanza. But this kind of wishful thinking can be just as big a stumbling block. In the first part of our lives, it is easier to… Continue reading →