My hope is that this blog will be a place of hope and refreshment for all who visit.
I believe each one of us is wired for hope. Because the world around us is broken, we have to fight for hope, sometimes with every breath.
There is no script for much of life and at times our hope wavers on the edge of the chasm called despair. Our fight for hope in all areas of our lives takes great courage.
“Hope is by far one of the most dangerous commitments we make in life.” Dan B. Allender
My hope is that this will be a community where we, as fighters for hope, can encourage and challenge each other to be brave and to keep fighting.
I agree completely that hope is vital for life. When we lose hope, which is a type of faith that things will get better, or maybe it is just a hope (having faith) that we will survive whatever difficult circumstance we are going through.
And, what you say about not running from your past, but rather embracing it is the essence of being whole. We learn from our past, we understand others because of our past and theirs, we can more easily forgive because we understand and have learned from our past and from those around us. We connect when we share, and we grow from the connections we make. It helps us be open and aware, and when we get to the bottom of it all, it helps us be what we are… human beings doing the best we can, making mistakes along the way, but learning from that, too…