Hope is an openness to possibility...
Pamela C. Hawkins wrote this about Hope:
Hope opens something in the human heart. Like shutters slowly parting to admit a winter dawn, hope permits strands of light to make their way to us, even when we still stand in cold darkness; but hope also reveals a landscape beyond us into which we can live and move and have our being. With hope, closely-held interior thoughts are gently turned outward; deep desires, perhaps long hidden in secret corners of our heart, might be lifted up to the light. At times, hope peels back the edges of our imagination to free what waits underneath — a changed life, a new resolve, a 'yes' pregnant with possibility. In other moments hope dares us to unfold a layer of desire — for relationship, for clarity, for courage.
from: Simply Wait: Cultivating Stillness in the Season of Advent
I've made some seventy+ journeys through Advent since my birth and sometimes - actually quite often! - I think that I have some significant stock in wisdom. Well, I don't, or at least not as much I would like. I still come up short when all seems to be whirling out of control in my life. I flounder and flop, whine and curse, despair and cry. All sense of a vibrant future evaporating in the heat of it all. I lose all sight of Hope.
But she is there and when I calm myself long enough to take a moment, a long intentional moment, to stop, look and listen, she emerges from the dust storm, sometimes rushing in with grand sweeping gestures and perhaps a cluck of gentle reprimand. More often she simply seeps into my empty places with a simple beautiful moment bringing fresh air and positive energy, restoring my future. And I can again say, "Yes" to a new day.
©2025 April Hoeller
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