When We Try Our Best And Things Still Go Wrong

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon · May 19, 2026 · 1m

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When We Try Our Best And Things Still Go Wrong

Sometimes we try to do the right thing,

and things still go wrong.

We still lose people.

Still get hurt.

Still face failure, disappointment, and even betrayal.

“He will guard the feet of his faithful ones…”

— from 1 Samuel 2:9

The Hebrew word translated “guard”

is shamar —

to keep watch over,

to carefully attend to,

to remain mindful of.

It is not a promise

that suffering will never come.

But a reminder

that we have not been abandoned

to the darkness around us.

Even in the hardest places,

God walks with us.

And we walk with each…