It’s safe to say we’ve all hoped for different things at different times in our lives.
Little hopes like passing a test or finding a parking space in a crowded parking lot or maybe even finding those perfect pair of shoes in our size … and on sale. (Okay, I realize I may have lost any guys reading this post with that last little hope.)
And then there are the bigger hopes like making friends the first day at a new school or making it onto the sports team or making it into the college of your dreams.
But what about great hopes? The kind of hopes that guide our lives … guide our choices … the kind of hopes that define us … that reflect our values.
Maya Angelou’s great hope encompasses laughing and crying and work and love — and yes, courage.
My great hope?
My great hope is to be honest about who I am and to stand in the wide open spaces of God’s grace; to remember Jesus is my only ground of confidence and to always look for opportunities to love and encourage others.
In Your Words: What is your great hope?
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I really like this quote, maybe one of the finest I’ve read of hers. Great Hopes? The bigger the better. I love the title of the J.B. Phillips book, “Your God is Too Small.” My kids told me once I could believe for big things, like funds for mission trips to So. Am. when I only had $30 at the beginning, but didn’t have faith to resist the common cold (kind of gave up and accepted it for its term, I guess). So this is great–BIG Hopes. Let’s have filters like for sifting gold, where only the big nuggets stick and the small inconsequential things pass on through.
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Dee, I don’t think your God is too small at all. As a matter of fact, knowing you has helped me see God bigger and bigger and bigger.
Thank you for that.
Mine is to nurture the hope that there IS still hope that I may see a new dawn.
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Andrew,
You grab hope with both hands and refuse to let go. I like that about you.
I love your great hope, Beth! Mine is to serve the Lord with all my heart, and my secondary great hope is to become a wife and stay-at-home/work-from-home mom (and train up those kids in the ways of the Lord). Those are things I’ve dreamed of practically my entire life. They’re the reason I’ve worked so hard on my emotional health, because, as an emotional person, if that isn’t in tune, my service to both my Lord and family will suffer.
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Andrea: You’re very wise in framing your Great Hope. God-given emotions are to be kept in tune with His Spirit … and those often come down to our daily choices as we walk in His Spirit.