Hope Floats to Hope Saves
‘Hope floats’ means hope will give us the strength to overcome difficulties and hardships. It is also the title of a 1998 movie that casted Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr. who beautifully did justice to their roles. I loved this line in the movie: “Just give HOPE a chance to float….and it will!”
I hope your yesterday goes well. If I said that to you, you’d be thinking Donna has lost it! It’s silly to hope someone’s YESTERDAY goes well because HOPE doesn’t live in the past. Hope is something based on great expectations for our future. We can look backward and reminisce the ups and downs, but we can’t HOPE in the past. Even hoping that Uncle Milton included us as a beneficiary is still HOPING in the past.
We can’t change yesterday. We can’t hope in yesterday. But, we can HOPE for today and for tomorrow to be filled with many wins, victories, and remarkable interceptions of blessings. We can hope our marriages get stronger and we are more in love than ever OR we can even hope for marriage. Period. We can hope for a clean bill of health. We can hope for being able to conceive a baby. We can hope for a new home or car. We can hope our children do well in school.
I can vouch for being a “hoper” in the midst of hopelessness everywhere we turned. We lived by my husband’s famous quote: “Hope is the great expectation that something good is about to happen!” So, of course when he was diagnosed with Stage 4 Kidney Cancer, we picked up the hope ball and ran with it with unabashed hope.
I was speaking to a friend who is a recent widow. I told her our story of faith and hope were strong and relentless throughout the ensuing eight months of treatments, surgeries, medical appointments AND more pain than could have been imagined because of the tumor impinging his spinal cord. In spite of it all, we never gave in to despair. Hope is what kept us going. And, though my sweetheart got his ticket to heaven….I can tell you this. I have no regrets in the hoping and believing. Every day was a new day of hope and hope was the fuel that kept us going.
Hoping is ALWAYS “the great expectation that something good is about to happen” now, in a minute, in this day and tomorrow. Hope is that true grit determination that keeps us afloat in the middle of difficulty.
Sooooo — all that being said, I’d like you to know how excited and hopeful I am for this 2022 year to turn into the greatest year of HOPE and great expectation — most of which I HOPE people to come to know our great HOPE Giver, Father God. I am excited and hopeful for love to abound in our homes, our cities and our country. I am hopeful for cures to diseases. I am hopeful that the tide turns for respect for life from conception to the grave. I am hopeful that America WILL be great again in the eyes of its citizens and around the world.
Doesn’t that feel so good? I mean – being hopeful for today and tomorrow. We don’t know what tomorrow holds but we know that God holds tomorrow and He isn’t a bit surprised by His kids showing out. In all seriousness, He’s got the whole wide world in His hands, so why should we worry or fret. Let’s just keep HOPING and PRAYING for His will being done on earth as it is in heaven!
Romans 15:13 “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”