I thought you might enjoy listening to these people who tried to predict what the future held:

"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out."
MGM memo after the first showing of
The Wizard Of Oz.

"You'd better learn secretarial skills
or else get married."
Modeling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944.

"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible." - Royal Society president Lord Kelvin,
1897-9.

"You ought to go back to driving a truck."
Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954.

"Forget it. No Civil War picture
ever made a nickel."
MGM executive, advising against investing in
Gone With The Wind.

"Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald.
Can dance a little."
A film company's verdict on
Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test.

"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak
as an expert in explosives."
U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945.

"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." - Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.

"Everything that can be invented
has been invented."
director of the US Patent Office, 1899.

"And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam."
Newsweek magazine, predicting popular
holidays for the late 1960s.

Predicting the future is a difficult thing to do. And yet we often wonder, what does the future hold for me? What does God have in mind for my life? Who will I marry? What will happen to me when I grow old? How can I make it through the pain or sorrow I'm experiencing right now? Will things ever get better?

"Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
From the end of the earth I will cry to You,
when my heart is overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
For You have been a shelter for me,
a strong tower from the enemy.
I will abide in Your tabernacle forever;
I will trust in the shelter of Your wings."
(Psalm 61:1-3).

I like this quote (author unknown):

"Christians don't know what the
future holds, but we know
who holds the future."

May you take comfort in that knowledge.

Have a great day!

In Jesus' name, Amen.

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