Hopefulness | How to Find Hope in a World of Uncertainty

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Where is Hope?  How can I find Hope?

Hope is survival without it there is not life.  Hope for Christmas, Hope for retirement, Hope for birth, Hope for freedom, Hope for forgiveness, Hope to believe something Good will come!  Right now in our world it is filled with uncertainty and with that there is fear.

I am scared; it is not in my nature to live "day by day".  I am a planner and prepare for the future but, never in a million years did I am imagine my world, my family, friends, and especially my children would ever have to experience fear and the unknown. 

 

As a mother I try my best to never lie to my children or show how weak I actually am.  I want my children to dreams, plan, experience and have hope.  More than ever I have been tested and really not sure if I can pass the test when I feel like giving up.  Many call Hope "positive thinking" or being "optimistic" but, it is "plain and simple" "Hope" a gift given from God and when one receives a gift sometimes it is hard to see it's beauty and all that it offers.  I believe in God and have to take the gift he gives me and use it because not a simple gift of Hope maybe all we have left.

Today, is the First Day of Spring, even though it is gloomy and rainy; I do hear birds and a little bit of sunshine is trying to peek through.  Hope is a gift and one that should not be taken for granted;  I am hoping for warmer and brighter days.  More than ever I am hopeful I will be reunited with my family, friends and sweet students.  At times, we get caught up in life and each difficult situations that Hope is often far from our minds.  We believe the sun will never come up. I pray everyday, and more importantly today for hope to be able to appreciate a simpler, calm and hopeful lifestyle.

We need to hang on to faith in God that he has a plan for me, for us; a plan that we cannot see but, we are hopeful and will receive and understand.  I do not understand really what is happening in our world but, hope to grow from it to become a better person, mother, friend, teacher, sister etc.  For years I am have been trying to minimize my life and this pandemic really is making me want a simple lifestyle with less and only have the most important people and things around me. 

"I know the plans I have for you, declared the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."  Jeremiah 29:11