{"id":4422,"date":"2024-10-28T18:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:47:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:47:31","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4422","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I realized that I\u2019ve been using the word \u201chope\u201d a lot lately. I hope you\u2019re feeling better, I hope you do good on your test, hope you can come, I hope it doesn\u2019t rain, I hope it does<\/em> rain\u2026. etc.
That got me to thinking about hope. We use the word all the time and we really do \u201chope\u201d a lot.\u00a0
I\u2019ve always heard the phrase \u201cfaith, hope and charity,\u201d but I\u2019m not sure I ever really knew what it meant, and why are those three things grouped together?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is hope? I looked it up \u2014 Hope is a longing or desire for something good in the future<\/em>. So it seems that hope is the desire for something better, or maybe something we want or something we don\u2019t have \u2014 yet.
I guess that means that if you\u2019ve got everything you want, and are completely satisfied with everything that\u2019s happening around you, you\u2019d have no need for hope. Well, maybe you\u2019d hope that nothing ever changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As some of you know, I\u2019m at a difficult place in my life right now and very often lately, I\u2019ve been tempted to lose hope. But I think hope is important \u2014 very important. Maybe that\u2019s why I seem to have been using the word a lot lately.\u00a0
We all experience desire, faith, pain, courage, love, sorrow, etc. \u2014 but when listing these things, we often leave out hope\u2026 but it\u2019s probably an integral part of all of these experiences or \u201cfeelings.\u201d\u00a0 Hope is even a part of our prayers \u2014 we all hope that our prayers will be answered\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we hope for something, it\u2019s usually not a \u201cslam-dunk.\u201d If something is easy to come by, we usually don\u2019t hope for it. Same thing when something is impossible, or beyond our grasp \u2014 we don\u2019t hope for those things either. We hope for things that are possible<\/em> \u2014 maybe difficult, but possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The definition of hope says it\u2019s a desire for some good in the future. Maybe I\u2019m doing it wrong, but sometimes I hope for something bad to happen \u2014 but not to me \u2014 I never hope something bad happens to me. Sometimes I hope that criminals are put in jail, or that a mass-shooter\u2019s gun jams, or things like that. So is the something good in the definition of hope only hope for the one doing the hoping? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve read this far, you know there\u2019s probably no point to this rambling \u2014 it\u2019s just more of my self-therapy.\u00a0
But I did run across someone that seems to have a better grasp of hope than I do and he states his thoughts much more eloquently\u2026.
French poet Charles P\u00e9guy describes hope this way:
\u201cHope is a little girl. She is, in fact, the younger sister of Faith and Charity. Hope walks hand in hand with her two sisters on the \u201cuphill path\u201d called life. At first, she may appear to be the weakest of the three. But, on the contrary, it is Hope who carries both Faith and Love. It is Hope who moves the world.\u201d
\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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