Three Things About One Word:

Hope

She wanted to quit. And when I say quit, I mean that she wanted to give up and die. But why couldn't she do it? What was keeping her from taking her own life? Her answer was found in this one word......Hope.

As I complete my second assignment for Blog Month, my mind goes back to the many children living in poverty who feel like the girl in the story. But because of the many hearts, like that of Jesus, there are those who care enough to reach out to these children and provide them with hope. 

So what is hope?

Hope is a place. A place of safety and security. It's a place where, when the world seems to be falling apart around you, you can go and feel safe. A place of peace. A place where you find the covering of warmth that provides the security needed that can't be found anywhere else. You ball up like an infant in your mother's womb. Hope is where you find refuge.

I ask that you will close your eyes and imagine yourself as this child in this place of hope. Can you see yourself lying there? You're balled up like an infant in your mother's womb, covered under the warmth of hope. You lie there thinking of a better tomorrow. You lie there thinking of all the things you desire happening in your life right now. You see yourself having meals placed before you each day. Because at this present moment, you are hungry from not having eaten in two days. You see yourself able for the first time getting proper medical care when you get sick. Because at this present moment, your family cannot afford it at all. You see yourself wearing a shirt and a pair of pants. A pair of shoes even, because at this present moment, you're walking around in only your underwear and barefoot.

One day you know that when you get a sponsor, things will look a little brighter. Hope has now become the feeling you have inside. You smile because hope has made things look better for you. This hope of a brighter future, you carry everyday in your heart. Lying there in hope, a tear streams down your face. Hope has made you feel that there is someone out there who cares enough for you to become your sponsor. Now, you have decided that no matter what, you will look and wait on that day you too will hear the good news. Hope has given you an anticipation with expectation. You lift yourself from that place. You can now face your days with confidence. Hope has given you three things: a place of safety, a feeling of joy, and expectation.



Open your eyes. You have just imagined yourself as this little child. Now imagine yourself becoming a sponsor of a child like the one you pictured yourself being. There are many children like the one you became all across the world today who are living in hope. The hope of having a sponsor. Will you become one who will play a part in giving them an expectation? Sponsor a child today. Take part in their hope. Click the link below.

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,

says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil,

to give you a future and a hope.

(Jeremiah 29:11)

 

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