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Hope for this Life

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Dear Friends, I am thrilled to have this guest post from Shauna Letellier to share with you today. You may remember I recently wrote a book review on her latest book, 'Remarkable Hope'. (If you haven't yet read it but would like to, then please click  here ) Over to Shauna... Thomas Chisholm was not a formally educated man. But in 1941 he wrote in a letter, “My income has not been large at any time due to impaired health in the earlier years which has followed me on until now. Although I must not fail to record here the unfailing faithfulness of a covenant-keeping God and that He has given me many wonderful displays of His providing care, for which I am filled with astonishing gratefulness."* You will not be surprised to learn that a man who writes such a letter is also the author of the poem which, when set to music, became the hymn “Great is Thy Faithfulness.” With a long history of poor health and financial strain, Chisholm penned thi