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Daily Question, February 27

What gives me hope?

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    its hard to pinpoint just one
    and sometimes I don’t know what it is

  • Malag

    That winter will be over!

  • jness98

    My husband gives me hope. When things aren’t going the way they seem. I turn to him. All I need is a hug, kiss, or someone to talk too he is there. I am so happy he is in life. Without him I wouldn’t be who I am today.

  • Dusty Su
    History, both personal and global, as ugly as it has been. Even through plagues, high waters, social bigotry, mistreatment of the marginalized, and great dispare, I’d like to believe that eventually things work out, in that we make peace, restitution, resolution and learn to love better. Though it may be a long time coming, we personally may never see it, and there is no comfort for those in the grave. I cannot shake my sense of a benevolent power of love from God/dess and humankind. Even when...

    History, both personal and global, as ugly as it has been. Even through plagues, high waters, social bigotry, mistreatment of the marginalized, and great dispare, I’d like to believe that eventually things work out, in that we make peace, restitution, resolution and learn to love better. Though it may be a long time coming, we personally may never see it, and there is no comfort for those in the grave. I cannot shake my sense of a benevolent power of love from God/dess and humankind. Even when there may be evidence against such way of being.

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  • GCharlotte

    My most chaste spouse who lives in eternal peace. I love him.

  • Nancy Walton-House
    I feel hopeful for the present and the future when I reflect on my own personal history and that of people I know. While we’ve all experienced darkness as well as light, the light triumphed most of the time. People living now are challenged by many issues. I won’t name them here. It is tempting and easy in a time of challenge to feel hopeless and powerless to make needed changes. Still a historical review tells me that most of the time darkness is followed by light; good overcomes evil ...

    I feel hopeful for the present and the future when I reflect on my own personal history and that of people I know. While we’ve all experienced darkness as well as light, the light triumphed most of the time. People living now are challenged by many issues. I won’t name them here. It is tempting and easy in a time of challenge to feel hopeless and powerless to make needed changes. Still a historical review tells me that most of the time darkness is followed by light; good overcomes evil and we continue to invent new solutions to old problems. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. In addition and most importantly, I believe in a loving and merciful God. Jesus told us “I am with you always, until the end of the age.” ~ Matthew 28:20.

    One song I take inspiration and challenge from is “Go Light Your World” from the CD “Holy Darkness” (2006). The song is written by Chris Rice and sung by Father Jim Northrop. It concludes with this verse:

    Carry your candle
    Run to the darkness
    Seek out the lonely, depressed and worn.

    Hold out your candle for all to see it
    Take your candle
    Go light your world.
    Take your candle
    Go light your world.

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  • Antoinette

    Compassion and loving kindness give me hope .

  • Elizabeth M Jones

    The global movement towards a more sustainable future and the many actions all over the world of people standing together and demanding more accountability from their governments give me HOPE.

  • Cailinrua

    The belief that things change, that the only constant is change–but it depends on how far down I am for that to kick in. I’m learning that I can change my thoughts, although more often than not I don’t want to. It’s like exercise–training muscles, developing better ones. Standing back and meditating can lessen my resistance–when I do it! Great question.

  • Elaine

    A photo this week of Greta Thunberg with Malala is an icon of hope. They are signs of a an emergent re-balancing of humanity’s priorities and – I dare to hope – choices.

    • grateful sea

      Elaine, thank you for bringing this photo & their meeting to my attention. For me too, it is “an icon of hope.”

  • Ed Schulte
    First acknowledging that the 40 days of Lent have begun …so there is quite a number of believers in Hope, which is a good start. Personally hope lives in me, not as some kind of wish, but rather that I do life without doubt. Doing with out doubt …this is my everyday approach to life eternal…and that “doing GIVES back accordingly! And I gratefully accept it!“. Below is a good Parable like description of what I consider "doing life" Joshua Emmanuel, gave a parable of a woman, he sai...

    First acknowledging that the 40 days of Lent have begun …so there is quite a number of believers in Hope, which is a good start.

    Personally hope lives in me, not as some kind of wish, but rather that I do life without doubt. Doing with out doubt …this is my everyday approach to life eternal…and that “doing GIVES back accordingly! And I gratefully accept it!“.

    Below is a good Parable like description of what I consider “doing life”

    Joshua Emmanuel, gave a parable of a woman, he said she brought three measures of flour. She makes them up in such a way that the three of them became “leavened”. So what does that mean? Which is that woman? She is the personality taking the measures, three measures of flour, the material, Psychical and Noetical. It is matter, substance, [and] Super substance, of the Mind. These three measures of flour. Mixing and measuring them, working with them. And the three of them became “Leaven”. That is what Joshua Emanuel the Christ meant. So that woman, [ actually] our personality, has to do the work to transmute herself and the three bodies into the Divine nature which is our Spiritual body form which is in fact there [now], but you have to get back to your real nature. “

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  • Mica

    Most things. For example, the knowledge that I’ve recovered from both long-lasting coughs and knee pain in the past, so I’m likely to recover this time, too. Chest and knee x-rays this week were both ok.
    Also, the knowledge that change happens, and new people come with new elections, for example, sooner or later.

  • Hot Sauce
    The fact that every time I seem to think it will never get better, that I will never get through something, that my life is over...it does get better, I get through it and overcome it, and my life goes on. It's easy to think things are hopeless when the present is bleak, but all things are temporary, and life continually shifts back and forth between turbulence and tranquility. Where there is turbulence, tranquility is soon to follow. Where there is tranquility, it is possible that there will be...

    The fact that every time I seem to think it will never get better, that I will never get through something, that my life is over…it does get better, I get through it and overcome it, and my life goes on. It’s easy to think things are hopeless when the present is bleak, but all things are temporary, and life continually shifts back and forth between turbulence and tranquility. Where there is turbulence, tranquility is soon to follow. Where there is tranquility, it is possible that there will be some turbulence ahead, but that’s okay because even so, tranquility is bound to happen again.

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  • Samuel

    My church now sponsors a monthly free meal/devotion/fellowship event for local less fortunate folk. Our inaugural event in January attracted 18 guests, which we felt was a good start and a hopeful sign. Last Tuesday, at our second meal, we experienced 50 guests! We are elated that needy people are being helped and remain hopeful that our program will continue to grow and even expand from monthly events to weekly meals…
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  • Linda

    Seeing my students achieve their dreams.

  • Debra

    The birds singing this early hour. The pale pinkness in the bluish sky. The looming age-old live oak tree right outside my door. Hope and love shining through and around me adorning this day into night.

  • Katrina

    Children who don’t know what they don’t know, who just laugh and cry and feel and then get up and go again; the elderly and infirm who do the same; those who live life without getting so bogged down in what is unnecessary wants and expectations; people who believe – really believe in good, God, and life – even if it seems rather naive; the clear night skies of West Texas; but mostly Hope itself.

  • Carla

    Each new day, whether it’s cloudy or blazing with sunshine and nighttime, whether it’s star filled skies or not.

  • Rebekah H.

    The quiet dawn of each new day and silent stillness of each new night.

  • Trish

    When I see people connecting with one another it brings me hope. We are all on this planet together and we need the nurturing, the warmth & love that we can bring to one another. We also need one another to facilitate difficult conversations, to challenge one another & explore creative, out of the box ideas. All of these interactions offer hope.

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