In a recent conversation a little saying of my mother's popped into my head "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear", hard on it's heels came the thought that MAYBE God can. I hope so! After all we believe in the God of the impossible don't we?!
Hosea 6v3 says 'Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord' his going out is sure as the dawn' he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth'.