Faith & Spirituality

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The Plans Inside the Wood Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) Emeric Okpara said the same thing every time he finished a violin. "I mean you good and not harm," he would tell it. "I mean you to prosper. These are plans to give you hope and a future." "Why talk to the violin, Papa?" his daughter Anneliese asked once. "It is only wood." "It is the promise in Jeremiah twenty nine, eleven," he said. "The wood cannot see what it is becoming. The knife hurts it and the clamps squeeze it. But the maker is not thinking about the knife. The maker is thinking about the plan." When Anneliese was thirty four, her father died. Nine days after the funeral, the workshop burned. Only one violin survived, a half finished instrument wrapped in a tea towel on a wardrobe shelf. For three years she did not touch it. She stacked shelves at a supermarket, stopped going to church, and threw away a card that quoted the verse. Prosper? Not harm? There was only ash. Then an old woman at her checkout mentioned a cello her father had once mended, and what he had said over it. Anneliese went home and took down the violin. She finished it slowly, with borrowed tools and the help of neighbors she had never noticed. When she lifted the top plate for a final check, she found pencil writing on the inside of the back, in her father's hand. Jeremiah 29:11. And beneath it: He means you good, and not harm. He means you to prosper. Plans to give you hope and a future. For Anni, on the day she finishes it. You will understand now, my love. Papa. She gave the violin to a twelve year old girl who had never owned an instrument. At the first concert, when the girl drew her bow and the note rose golden into the rafters, the old woman beside Anneliese whispered, "That is what a promise sounds like when it comes true." The plan had never been the fire. It had been good and not harm, quietly held, over every year she thought no one was thinking of her. Make a clip of this give suggested prompts we are not using your image generation give 5-8 image prompts instead i will use your imageneration for other clips.