Hope and Adventure

One of the things that adventure has taught me about hope is that challenges create opportunities for hope. HOPE can be an acronym for Hearing Other People's Experience. In other words, adventures, challenges, trials and tribulations force us to either remain in fear and despair or seek hope. Hope never abandons us; we abandon it. Hope creates opportunities for faith, confidence and encouragement. Thus, adventures foster fear or hope...the choice is up to us!

February - New Hope

For each month, there are 12 principles: 1 - Honesty, 2-Hope, 3-Faith, 4-Courage, 5-Integrity, 6-Willingness, 7-Humility, 8-Foregiveness, 9-Justice, 10-Preserverance, 11-Spirituality, and 12-Love and Service, aka Gratitude. February then is about Hope. Hope never gives up on us; we give up hope. HOPE = Hearing Other People's Experience. HOPE = Having Our Prayers Expressed. Hope is that feeling that everything will get better if I don't do anything to mess it up. Hope is the trust that things have been bad before and we never believed that we could get through something and we did. Hope is that belief that there is something greater than us and it is on our side. Hope means that I came to believe that a power greater than myself can restore me to sanity.

The Tsunami of Sadness and Malaise

I have been trying to ward of a tsunami of sadness and malaise by hanging onto a palm tree and wait for it to crash over me and go back out to sea. I am still HOPEFUL because I know God has me best when He has me at his mercy and there is no bad that good does not come of it - No hay mal que por bien no venga es la verdad.

Blessed with Pain

I am blessed to know people in a lot of pain right now: physical pain, emotional pain, financial pain, and legal pain. With everything I have experienced in the last five years - financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, I know when you're down to nothing, God is up to something! Since it is ALWAYS darkest before the dawn, when things seem REALLY bad, I get hopeful because it's not much longer til the miracle arrives!

Hope

The break of sunshine. I am hopeful today for no good reason. I love the feeling of having hope, of being happy, when my reality should make me feel otherwise. I know I am growing spiritually when I can resist despair in the face of "nothing good to look forward to" today. Must be GOD is up to something...

Keep Going

This morning I went out for a run at 6:30am. Fall has definitely arrived because it was still dark, but the light came and the sky was indescribably beautful. It is truly a great day to be alive...and nothing good has happened yet. Imagine when that happens!!