Her Name’s Hope

Her name’s Hope.

She was the after-lunch speaker at our church this week.

Representing Hodgson Mills, she had shopping bags of their food products for us.

“I just put together a bunch of stuff,” she explained about the bags’ contents, “Probably everybody’ll get something diffrent.”

And then she said this: “What you get is what you get, so don’t throw a fit.”

Great line!

Reminded me of a prayer that’s made its way into our current United Methodist Hymnal —

God, grant me

the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

—UMH, #459

Or as she said, “What you get is what you get, so don’t throw a fit.”

Her name’s Hope, and it fits her.