HOPE Vaclav Havel, the poet, said “Hope is a state of mind. It is a dimension of the soul. It is an orientation of the spirit and the heart. It transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. It is an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. It is the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It gives us the strength to live and continually to try new things, even in conditions that sometimes seem without hope.” Erich Fromm said, “Hope is being ready at every moment for that which is not born. Hope cherishes all signs of new life and is an inner readiness, that of intense but not-yet-spent activeness.” Emily Dickenson said: “Hope is a strange invention— A patent of the Heart— In unremitting action Yet never wearing out—.” Martin Luther King said, “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” Pearl S. Buck said, “To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.” Martin Luther said, “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” Lionel Tiger said, “Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.” Norman Vincent Peale said, “Hope is wanting something so eagerly that—in spite of all the evidence that you’re not going to get it—you go right on wanting it. And the remarkable thing about it is that this very act of hoping produces a kind of strength of its own.” Therefore, I have learned that hope is much more than wishful thinking. It possesses a heart of anticipation that expects to encounter new opportunities that can assist us in achieving our goals and dreams. But hope presupposes an inherent goodness and significance underlying those hopes and dreams. That goodness and meaning finds its source in our God. As Apostle Paul said in Ephesians (1:18-20): “May the eyes of your heart be enlightened, that each of you may know what is the Hope that belongs to God’s call, what are the riches of God’s glory and inheritance. For you have been raised up to carry God’s Hope to all peoples, and to do so in true humility and gentleness of spirit.”
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:00:10 +0000
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