My dear friends,
Some of you are going through some really hard things right now. I think it’s time to share with you where the name Honeycomb Hope came from.
It was years and years into my infertility journey. I knew what it was to persevere through my grief. The sorrow and deep loss I felt inside was starting to show on the outside. My chronic pain was too great to hide.
This was when God showed me a picture. A picture of hope. Honeycomb hope.
Imagine with me. There is a grand oak tree. Its thick trunk shows its age, weather-worn, yet sturdy. And on its lowest branch there is a large beehive. Swarms of bees surround it as rich, golden honey seeps out its top.
Maybe you’re like me. I have a fear of bees. Just one sting can cause an allergic reaction with long-lasting consequences.
Come closer. Now, you take the place of the mighty tree. Like the branch, reach out your arm and take hold of the bee’s nest.
Why would I, of all people, ask you to take hold of a beehive?
I ask you to hold on because I know what’s inside.
There is sweet honey waiting for you if you can endure a time of bitter stings.
So hear me out. In whatever long-suffering you are facing right now, don’t let go. Don’t run away. Don’t hide.
Hold on.
The bees will eventually fly away. The nest will break apart. And sweet honey will pout out.
For bees may give a bitter sting, but in the end, they produce sweet honey. And honey is hope waited for. Honeycomb hope.
I don’t know what you are facing today, but I do know that God promises us that our suffering produces endurance, character, and eventually hope.
Romans 5:1–5 (ESV): Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Endurance here means “to stay in a place”, “to stand against opposition”, “to hold out, wait on”. The character is the testing, and testing takes time. This hope we have is an expectant hope that only comes through the waiting.
I believe that if you hold out in patient endurance, one day you will hear the whisper, “It’s time to taste the honeycomb.”
Dear Mindy, thank you so much for your beautiful post and your encouraging words to me in your last posts. I can hardly wait to taste the honeycomb.❤