“Hope is Something We Have to Choose”

Meditation

Hope is something we have to choose. God is someone we have to seek. Sometimes a single sentence is the most we can call out to God. Sometimes our best is only a few words or only a God-directed sigh. Sometimes when we need to have God near, we need more encouragement than we can summon through our own pep talks. It is not enough for us to snatch at hope like a bird flitting from limb to limb snatches at rose hips in a bier thicket. We need to embrace hope, choose hope, and grab on to hope with all our might.

- Dee Brauninger excerpted from Holy E-Mail