AS WE ARE FACING THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER NEW YEAR, I HAVE BEEN REFLECTING ON THE ONE WHICH I HAVE JUST LIVED. IT WAS NOT A UPLIFTING YEAR FOR ME, AS I WAS GIVEN THE TASK OF YET ANOTHER GRIEVING TIME TO LIVE AND WORK THROUGH. ANOTHER TIME OF FEAR AND WONDERING, WHY WOULD GOD LET BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?
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WITH THESE THINGS BECOMING A CONSTANT IN MY LIFE, I SET OUT UPON AN INWARD JOURNEY TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHY. I NEEDED TO KNOW WHAT IT IS I BELIEVE ..... TO FIND THOSE THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUTHS. THIS IS A LITTLE OF WHAT I CAME TO KNOW ABOUT MYSELF, AND THE LIFE I AM USING UP AT AN ALARMING RATE OF SPEED. I KNOW I USUALLY WRITE BLOGS ABOUT THINGS IN MY LIFE THAT ARE FUN AND ARE FUNNY TO OTHERS, TO SHARE THE GOOD THINGS I HAVE TO ENJOY. I CAME TO UNDERSTAND HOW I AM ABLE TO LOOK UP AND NOT DOWN. AT LEAST AFTER A TIME. I AM HOPING THAT BY SHARING THIS WITH YOU, YOU MIGHT BE HELPED SOMEHOW, IF EVER YOU ARE FACED WITH SOMETHING LIKE I HAVE.
AS CHILDREN WE ARE TAUGHT BY OUR PARENTS THAT GOD IS REAL. THAT HE CREATED US AND THAT HE LOVES US. JUST BEING TOLD TO BELIEVE IS NOT GOING TO LEAD ONE TO DO SO. WE HAVE TO HAVE OUR OWN EXPERIENCES IN LIFE, TO LIVE THE GOOD DAYS, TO EXIST IN THE BAD DAYS, BUT ALWAYS TO HAVE THE ONE THING THAT MAKES YOU CARE ABOUT LIVING, THAT MAKES YOU SEEK AND FIND YOUR CREATOR, THAT GIVES YOU FAITH.
THAT ONE THING, THAT EVERYONE MUST HAVE, TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO DO ANYTHING, IS HOPE. WITHOUT HOPE, WE WILL PERISH. WITHOUT HOPE, THERE IS NO GOOD TOMORROW. WITHOUT HOPE, THERE WILL BE NO ONE WHO WILL TRY TO DELVE INTO THE FINDING OF A CURE FOR A HORRIBLE DISEASE.
WITHOUT HOPE THAT WE MIGHT FIND A CURE, OR THAT EMOTIONAL PAIN MIGHT EASE,WHY WOULD ANYONE DO ANYTHING? IF WE DID NOT BELEIVE AND HOPE FOR SOMETHING BETTER, WHAT WOULD BE THE REASON FOR LIVING. WE ALL ARE GOING TO DIE SOMEDAY. WITHOUT THE BELIEF AND THE HOPE OF GOING TO A BETTER PLACE, WHY WOULD ANYONE FOLLOW THE RULES SET FOR US TO ADHERE TO? HOPE GIVES US THE TOOL TO CARRY ON TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
WHEN THIS TRUTH BECAME EVIDENT TO ME, I WONDERED WHERE DID YOU FIND HOPE? WHAT CAUSED IT TO OCCUR IN A PERSON? THE BEGINNING OF HOPE IS WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF. THEN YOU HAVE THE HOPE THAT, TOGETHER THINGS WILL GET BETTER. YOU HOPE THAT IF YOU DO THINGS FOR THAT OTHER PERSON, THEN THEY WILL NEVER GET SICK. THAT DEATH WILL NEVER FIND THEM.
WHEN THINGS HAPPEN IN MY LIFE LIKE THEY DO, I SAW WHAT HOPELESSNESS CAN DO TO SOMEONE WHO WAS DYING. I SAW SOMEONE WHO WAS ALWAYS SO TOGETHER, AND ON TOP OF EVERYTHING IN HER LIFE, LOSE HOPE. SHE LITERALLY WILLED HERSELF TO DIE, FOR LACK OF HOPE OF ANY DAY BEING WORTH LIVING.
THIS THING CALLED LOVE, AND THIS THING CALLED HOPE, WERE NOT SOMETHING LEARNED BY PEOPLE. IT IS INSTILLED IN US BY A HIGHER POWER. BECAUSE ON MY OWN, I WOULD NEVER CARE ENOUGH, HAVE HOPE ENOUGH TO CARRY FORWARD WITH MY LIFE. IT IS JUST NOT SOMETHING I THINK A PERSON IS TAUGHT. WE ARE NOT THAT STRONG OR OPTIMISTIC. GOD HAS LEFT IT WITH US WHEN HE FIRST BREATHED HIS LIFE INTO US WHEN WE WERE BORN. THE TRUTH I HAVE FOUND IS THAT HOPE IS THE THING THAT EVERYONE LIVES ON. MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, SO I ALLOW LOVE INTO MY LIFE EVEN THOUGH I FEAR LOSS, BECAUSE IT BRINGS TO MY LIFE HOPE. WITHOUT HOPE, I WOULD, LIKE MY LOVED ONE, PERISH......
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