A Reason for Hope

Lillian Warner — Fri, 4 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Despite a traumatic child- and young adulthood, despite tremendous struggles with mental health and debilitating chronic illness, I found joy in a deep, abiding faith.

I've learned that this kind of faith is nearly impossible to explain. I can tell you that I first encountered God in my dorm room closet, where I had hidden with a piece of broken glass, intending to kill myself. I can tell you that I experienced an overnight healing from raging psycho to level-headed human. I can tell you that I have days of crippling physical pain, but I feel God's presence so strongly that those times become sweet.

I can tell you that now, in my 70th year, I'm brimming with the kind of joy that can only come from faith.

I don't know if any of these experiences will speak to you. All I can do is promise you that they're true.

"I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." -- Matthew 18:3

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A Reason for Hope