hope

i'm finding a loss of hope in this world, so i decided to promote it.

webster defines hope as:

to cherish a desire with anticipation

why do so many young people in this world lose their hope? did the current elders of our community, our nation, our world, once lose their hope too? and if so, looking at our youngers losing their hope, shows me that we're headed for the same outcome. becoming a bunch of settlers.

i saw a bumper sticker today that read

support your local revolution

i'm going to start a revolution to stop my friends from giving up. when did we all become a bunch of sissy's, that just lay down? why aren't we fighting for this world to become better? i'm tired of hearing people (present company included!) complain how crappy their situation or this nation is, yet do nothing to make it better.

• i have to keep hope that God will bless us with children.
• i have to have hope that my family will one day love one another for who they are and not judge them for what their not.
• i have to have hope that one day everyone in this nation will have free health care
• i have to have hope that one day we'll lay down our weapons and celebrate our differences.

i have to have hope. we all have to have hope. without hope, love is worthless.

and doesn't 1 corinthians 13:13 say

But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

we're called to have hope. i hope that one day the youngers in our communities with hold tightly to their hope, their passion, their vision, of what this community and nation can be.

thanks...i'm now stepping off my pulpit.