Expectation! Anticipation! Realization!

EXPECTATION! ANTICIPATION!
REALIZATION!

by HELEN STEINER RICE



GOD GIVES US POWER WE SO SELDOM EMPLOY
FOR WE'VE SO UNAWARE IT IS FILLED WITH SUCH JOY,
FOR THE GIFT THAT GOD GIVES US IS ANTICIPATION,
WHICH WE CAN FULFILL WITH SINCERE EXPECTATION.
AND THERE'S POWER IN BELIEF WHEN WE THINK WE WILL FIND
JOY FOR THE HEART AND SWEET PEACE FOR THE MIND,
FOR BELIEVING THE DAY WILL BRING A SURPRISE
IS NOT ONLY PLEASANT BUT SURPRISINGLY WISE.
FOR WE OPEN THE DOOR TO LET JOY WALK THROUGH
WHEN WE LEARN TO EXPECT THE BEST AND MOST TOO,
AND BELIEVING WE'LL FIND A HAPPY SURPRISE
MAKES REALITY OUT OF A FANCIED SURMISE!



NEVER BE DISCOURAGED, FOR THERE COMES DAILY TO ALL WOMEN AND MEN THE CHANCE TO MAKE ANOTHER START AND BEGIN ALL OVER AGAIN.
H.S.R.





HE WILL NOT ALLOW YOUR FOOT TO SLIP;
HE WHO KEEPS YOU WILL NOT SLUMBER.



PSALM 121:3
NAS



FOR THE LORD WATCHES OVER ALL THE PLANS
AND PATHS OF GODLY MEN,
BUT THE PATHS OF THE GODLESS LEAD TO DOOM.



PSALM 1:6
TLB



YOU HEM ME IN, BEHIND AND BEFORE,
AND LAY YOUR HAND UPON ME.



PSALM 139:5
NRSV



LET YOUR FAVOR SHINE AGAIN UPON YOUR
SERVANT; SAVE ME JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE SO KIND!



PSALM 31:16
TLB



FOR THE LORD GOD IS A SUN AND SHIELD;
THE LORD BESTOWS FAVOR AND HONOR;
NO GOOD THING DOES HE WITHHOLD
FROM THOSE WHOSE WALK IS BLAMELESS.



PSALM 84:11
NIV



THEY REJOICE ALL DAY LONG IN YOUR WONDERFUL REPUTATION.
THEY EXULT IN YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
YOU ARE THEIR GLORIOUS STRENGTH.
OUR POWER IS BASED ON YOUR FAVOR.



PSALM 89:16-17
NLT