Hope

There's light at the tunnel's end?

HOPE so.

Believing in HOPE

Didn't ask to go through it.  Never dreamed of going through it.

Too dark.  Too long.  Too exhausting.

Not a hint of light.  Not even a glimmer.  Not yet anyways. 

Still ... refusing to lose HOPE.

Still ... believing in HOPE.

'At least there's HOPE.' 
(said someone dear to my heart, whose heart is HOPEFUL.)

No light yet.  But it's there.
Just haven't reached it yet.  It's coming.

I KNOW so!

HOPE is:

• not a notion, but a confidence
• not a wish, but a promise
• not a guess, but a belief
• not an assumption, but an assurance

I am confident of Jesus' promise that if I believe, I am assured of HOPE.

1 Peter 3:15

'... Always be prepared to give an answer

to everyone who asks you

to give the reason for the hope that you have.'

Romans 8:24 & 25

'... But hope that is seen is no hope at all.

Who hopes for what they already have?

But if we hope for what we do not yet have,

we wait for it patiently.'

Micah 7:7

'As for me, I watch in hope for the Lord.

I wait for God my Savior.

My God will hear me.'