HOPE!
So many folks are hurting, starving, angry, broken. It is a sad time for some. But, I firmly believe that the one thing you DO have control of is your ability to HOPE! There is not a soul out there that can take that away from you. Coming from someone who survived three weeks plus on nothing but Vienna Finger cookies . . . hope is available to everyone. Coming from someone who has lived three lifetimes worth of direct stomach kicks . . . hope remains. Coming from someone who has layed down beside her baby in a kid-side hospital bed for many nights . . . there is hope. Coming from someone who went to help mom with a broken collar bone and watched her head to Heaven instead . . . hope abounds.
FAITH!
With every task, trial, or tribulation . . . take that first step in FAITH and life is renewed. Faith brings hope to reality. Faith allows you to finally shut that stupid little voice up inside your head who fills you with negatives and no's. Faith heals hurts, feeds all sorts of hungers, soothes many ruffled feathers, and faith fixes broken. Faith beats a path through the scary, the unknown, the dark to lead you where you might not know you're going. Faith comforts and convalesces. Faith teaches and triumphs.
LOVE!
Four simple letters that encompass so very much! Love is patient. Real love sometimes is not evident in a firework, movie-style romance. Sometimes it is a small spark that is tended to and stoked for an eternity before it blooms into a sensuous heat. Love is kind. It does not perform acts in hope of repercussions and ripples. It exists to make warmth and tenderness a constant commonality. Love is not jealous. Love believes in the strength of itself and knows nothing can break its bonds. Love does not brag and is not arrogant. It simply exists in all its glory and that is enough. Love is beautiful!
Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love.
And the greatest of these is love.
No comments:
Post a Comment