Monday musings...

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

We all hope for something.

Big or small, it's always important to us, at the time.

We hope we'll pass that exam.

We hope we'll see that person.

We hope, no matter how hard it is to believe, that everything will turn out ok.

It's only human nature.

To wish.

To dream.

To hope.

Hope really must remain, if we're to remain sane.

It has a very close relationship with faith.

Faith gets you through when feelings are absent. Hope gives you something to look forward to, the light at the end of the tunnel.

Faith is believing in the unseen. Hope is what you make out of nothing.

Losing hope though, is a huge reality.

In our broken world, as fallen people, there seems nothing to look forward to,

nothing to dream about,

nothing to hope for.

It's too hard to look past the crap surrounding us,

it's too scary to step out and dream.

Being let down is too much of a reality.

Disappointment is inevitable.

Unavoidable.

Certain.

And if I've learnt anything, it's that there's not one person that won't let me down.

We're human.

We're broken.

But through that, I've learnt that the unconditional love of God is the single thing in the world that I can rely on.

Totally.

Faithfully.

And that gives me hope.