This very pattern has been woven
through our lives, yet most
are unaware. Most do not recognize that
the pain of being let down, the hatred
that bursts through when we know not what to
do with the pain, that frustration and anger
begin with us. The seed of hope, planted within
our souls, has surely turned against us.
Our world is a world of expectation.
The very words, "I hope that..." start the process.
And we forget that while we may hope
for certain destinies, we have no control over them.
Do we hope, or do we expect?
Have we forgotten that the One who gives us hope
closes doors as well as opens them?
The One who planted the seed is the very One
who tends the Garden; pruning away our
dead parts, no matter how loved those parts were,
so that we may become full-grown;
uprooting us and taking us from the homes that we
knew to be able to flourish somewhere else.
Is the power greater than us only Santa Claus,
all-knowing, and all-judging, but only
able to allow good things to happen to good people
and bad things to happen to bad people?
For most of us, I'd say that that depiction is fairly true.
And we forget that sometimes the word, "No"
is the very word that pushes us forward on to
our paths where we become more like the One
who gives us hope.
It is time to stop hoping for outcomes and start
hoping in the power that is greater than I,
that such power will work things out for my good
every.
single.
time.
It is time to stop hoping for outcomes and start
working every day IN today, feeling the joys and the
pains, allowing myself to laugh and to grieve,
to let today be today,
to stop worrying about the big picture
and start working on what is right in front of me.
Lest I forget who gave me today.
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