Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The Power of Hope

Whether you are flipping burgers, lecturing to graduate students, or staring at a blank computer screen willing words to spring forth, one single thing keeps life moving forward. Hope.
Without hope there is truly no payday.
Hope is the substance of dreams, the cool water slaking our thirst through the often barren areas of life. It's the blanket that keeps the hungry warm, and the dying comforted.
Hope ease the aches of the battered covers the shame of the violated and crowns the despised with honor. Hope walks the corridors of a benighted world and sees all - and nothing but the light ahead of a coming glorious kingdom.
Still, hope is not some ephemeral warm fuzzies or a mystic wish anchored on nothing, that some how comes through
Real hope, prevailing hope hangs on the only One who sees beyond the veil and declares He works all for our good.

Oh, my soul, why are you so discouraged? HOPE in God.