Always Hope

O light which mak'st the light, which
makes the day!
Which setst the eye without, and
mind within;
Lighten my spirit with one clear heavenly
ray,
Which now to view itself doth first
begin.

-Sir John Davies

In the depths of our hearts we know where we need improvements. We know how we need to be filled by God's love and desires and not our own self-love and personal desires. Here is where we are tested. What shall we make room for?

I write because I have hope. Always clinging to hope, I am, and writing helps me process the thoughts, musings, feelings, and inklings I learn along the way. It doesn't matter if it fits neatly together here. It doesn't have to look flawless. There will always be things that want to draw me away. But I will continue.

Pieces will come together in time. the trusting process will be proven when we see God move the pieces. We know it to be God because it is nothing we could have done, even if we tried. God does marvelous things. His plans are perfect.

The eternal is placed inside each of us, but we can dampen it if we fill our hearts with worldly things. Greed and hunger for power, money, and material possessions drains us. They become the focus and centre of so many people that the eternal hope of something that is already here is lost, and shortened. The eternal is faded. The truth is diminished.

We live in a sad world and we are faced each day with even more sadness. But there is hope. Always hope, even when the amount of hope is as tiny as a seed. God uses even the smallest things to good effect.