Hope seems like a sweet sentiment, does it not? It appears child like, appeals in its simplicity and causes my left eyebrow to rise at the temple side in questioning wonder. Hope? Hope springs eternal? Does it, really?
Awakening to hope
If you didn’t have hope, you wouldn’t get up in the morning. If you didn’t have hope, you would not try until you succeed. If you didn’t have hope, you wouldn’t have one more conversation with that kid of yours or the estranged relative. If you didn’t have hope, you would not try, one more time, to make pleasant conversation with the angry neighbour next door…if you didn’t have hope, you wouldn’t volunteer your time, give at the office, smile when you were in pain, comfort when it looks like nothing is going right for people you love… why bother is the question, without hope?
So you see dear reader, I am not the only one, am I? You have it too, is this true? With hope, dreams are dreamt and with hope, you try and try again. With hope, outcomes are possible and with hope, action is courageously taken. You and I, we must hope before we have. I write, not because I have all of the answers to life’s questions-you must go to a Higher Up for that tall order to be filled. I write because I hope that we are working toward a better way of being with one another. You read, I assume, because you too, want a better way, you too, hope for what can be which is often times, better than what was and currently, is? I may be unique in my hopeful ways but I don’t think so, I think we all have a built in hope generator. “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant” (Job 14:7-9). Build into you and me is a desire for renewal and hope is our scent of life giving water. You know you have this in you, admit it. Life isn’t so bad, I hope you believe this too.
