“Blessings are often sent
on the wings of burdens. Fear not the courier, lest you miss the gifts that the
Father sends your way!”
— ARUN ANDREWS
We never know what is
right around the corner for any of us. We can be in the depth of torment or
grief or languor and there it comes: a blessing from God. It is an ever
present possibility. And it is the thing that we hold onto for dear life when
we are in that dark corner subsisting on the scraps of this existence.
Where there is hope
there is hope.
The fact of the matter is
this: we must restore ourselves by the power of God to thinking the right
thoughts and to validating our feelings whatever they are. We don’t judge
ourselves or condemn ourselves. We simply let ourselves be, and then bring our
thinking around to the possibilities.
Possibilities are
beautiful things, and though hope meanders through our presence, as we waver
from hope through despair and back again into hope, possibilities always load-up
our hope.
We are best not to get too
downtrodden by the lack of deliverance out of the things we hope for. We look
back and we see how our hopes have failed us, how we still wait, and how long
we may still have to wait. Yet we know the blessing remains around the corner,
possibly.
We are graced by the Presence
of God as we persist in hope, because we entertain the thought of how we might
feel, and we enjoy the imagery of what the blessing might look like.
When Hope Is Everything
Such a wonderful concept
is hope. Hope is the thing that helps us defeat the temptation to fear. It is
not a bad thing to hope for something that seems totally unrealistic if it will
get us past the point of fear; this we can deem as faith.
With hope we remain open
to what God might do.
With hope we have poise
for the moment, patience as we wait, and a happy disposition that we can enjoy.
With hope we have so much
more of what we construct through the power of God, and any construction built
on God’s name has a solid basis and strength about it.
When hope is everything,
fear is diminished, and we roll with a buoyant uncertainty, fuelled by faith.
Nothing can defeat us when God sponsors us with Strength.
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We never know what is
around the corner, and this can give us tremendous hope when life turns south.
When hope becomes everything, fear is quashed, and we accept the uncertainties
of life with a buoyant joy that comes from God’s power. Nothing can defeat us
when we have this hope.
© 2013 S. J. Wickham.
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