I read the story in the newspaper. Over a period of two years, a young man wrote over 700 love letters to his sweetheart, each one proposing marriage. His persistence finally brought results. She married the mailman who delivered all the letters!

Life is often like that, isn’t it? We want something so badly we can taste it. We dream about it, we pray for it, we work to get it, but it doesn’t come. We all know the disappointment of that, don’t we? The disappointment of dreams unfulfilled…of prayers unanswered.

Perhaps we hoped for a promotion and it was given to someone else. We wanted to pass a test and we failed. We expected a happy marriage and it ended in divorce. We asked for health and we became ill. We prayed for a loved one to recover from an illness and they died.

It’s true. Som…