One Simple Tip to Hang Onto Hope
Happy New Year to You!
I hope you’ve been able to have some fun over these past couple of weeks! I love entering into the new year with anticipation of all the interesting things that are going to happen! Are you like that too? This is hope—an optimistic expectancy for what’s ahead.
But if I were to look back over my life, it’s probably fair to say that life moving forward will have some beautiful surprises that take my breath away. Some days won’t have anything particularly special happening. And some days will be super duper challenging, and I won’t know how I’ll be able to get through.
As I’ve grown in my realization that this is how life is going to transpire, I don’t have to be bowled over by circumstances. Maybe most importantly, I can let go of feeling like I need to control what happens to me, in order to have the life I desire. Because the life I have… the life you have… is going to contain all of it. The good, bad, and ugly.
So it all comes down to this: How are you going to live knowing this?
For me, I want to continually choose to be a person of hope. This is a posture I try to adopt each day, an outlook, rather than waiting for circumstances to determine whether I should have hope. Some of this is rooted in being a person of faith, but you can still be a person of hope even if you’re not.
Here’s one simple tip to help you hang on to hope this New Year… or heck, even just for today: Hope knows it can’t predict the future. Because of this, I’m going to keep looking for and anticipating the good that’s ahead.
Hopelessness thinks it can see the future, and says something like, “Nothing good has happened lately, so nothing good probably won’t happen in the future.” It kinda doesn’t make any sense, does it?
There is good ahead for you.
I need to hear this… things have been a bit rough lately. But knowing the way life goes, just around the corner will most likely contain beautiful moments of joy and love. New challenges, new opportunities. New blessings that will drive me to gratitude. I can’t wait.
Sending love to you on your personal journey of hope.
M.
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I write the Live Hope Minute from a decidedly Christian perspective, but hopefully you’ll find it’s one full of love and grace, that allows you to enter in wherever you are in your faith journey!
I love this quote from Maya Angelou—what a great mission statement!
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
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