Trish Vickers

A blind British woman named Trish Vickers was writing a novel, with dreams of finding a publisher. Those dreams were shattered when she showed her son what she had written, and he informed her that her pen had run out of ink before she had even begun writing. All she had to show for her hard work was a notebook filled with empty pages.

However, Vickers and her son asked the police if they could help. Using the kind of forensic technology that is seen on television shows, detectives were able to recover the words she had written from the indentations left on the paper. Her work was not done in vain after all.

Sometimes we may get discouraged about our life’s work. We wonder if there is anything of value in what we have accomplished. While it might not seem that anything is visible, the Lord knows what we have done. Nothing we have done for him will go unnoticed or unrewarded.

“I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.”—Revelation 2:19.