Answered Prayers (Poem)

There were dreams I had long forgotten, buried deep alongside my broken pen.

Yet, God, in His infinite mercy, has reminded me once again that every experience, no matter how painful or obscure, serves His greater purpose.

“I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten—the cankerworm, the caterpillar, and the palmerworm—my great army which I sent among you” (Joel 2:25).

Now, I find myself reliving those childhood dreams, but with a renewed perspective…

one shaped by growth, grace, and faith.

-Ann Reinhart

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