Sometimes it’s a hopeless world around us and all anyone can seem to do is just survive.
I don’t want to merely survive,
I want to bloom and grow and thrive in the place(s) that God has placed me.
Sometimes though I think that we all can just sort of settle for the “just good enoughs”.
I’m not talking about materialism or stuff but about our life circumstances and our hopes and dreams….
you see
when we were just kids
We dreamed. We welcomed imagination. We hoped to become, and in that becoming the sky was the limit.
We weren’t weighed down by endless doubts, or the “not good enoughs” or the “I can’ts”…
we just imagined and dreamed big dreams…
but…
over time…
we started to believe what others thought about us.
over time…
we bought into the lies that this world told us.
over time…
we accepting the truths of the fallen, instead of the truths of the risen.
So, for just a second, will you accepted this breath?
Will you accept this gift of hope again?
Will you take these written words to heart…
and believe again?
Here is the hope that I have for you for me, for us
today…
This is what I know HOPE to be:
H.elping us
O.pen our eyes to the
P.ower of
E.ternity
This isn’t something readily accepted. This isn’t something generally practiced…even though flowery speeches and whole sections of bookstores are devoted to “self-help”…they can fall short.
Hope lifts our eyes.
Helps us see beyond what this earth
has taught us to know.
When we can begin to look up, accept divine help…
our eyes can become truly open to the possibilities again.
The power
God’s power, brings us closer,
so much closer
to the way things were created to be
in the first place.
Don’t be limited by your hopes and dreams…find hope…
and….
let it….
set…
you…
Pastor's Ponderings 
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