Inside your own head is a scary place to be sometimes. There are times when I feel so discouraged, so down on myself, and so totally despairing that my world feels completely dark. Despite these powerful feelings though, I know that they won't last forever. I hope for better.
Hope is expecting positive results and blessings. It's a word that, in common language at least, is used with an air of uncertainty. But I don't think hope is uncertain at all. Hope is sure and unchanging. Your hope for something doesn't really change. Why would the wanting for good things in your life need to change? Hope is similar to faith, and they work together. Faith is an action of believing in or having hope for something that you can not see. You can't have faith without that hope for good.
I was thinking the other day about some of the roughest times of my life. People that have heard my story sometimes have asked me how I dealt with bad things. The truth is, I'm honestly not 100% sure of the entire reason, but a large part of it had to do with hope. I just knew there had to be something better waiting, and somehow it saw me through. That is what I'm clinging to again right now.
When it's the middle of the night, and it's dark and scary, we know that eventually the sun will come up, and we have hope that the light will make things better and less frightening. At this point in my life, I'm going through nighttime. I know it won't always be nighttime. I know that eventually, I'm going to get a sunrise too. That's faith. Right now doesn't even compare to the good things that'll come. When that sunrise comes, things are going to be okay.
That's hope.
