Will you choose hope today? Will you choose to believe you are safe, loved, and seen? Will you choose belief today? Will you choose to have faith in those who hold you close? Will you choose you today? It truly is your choice. How will you make it?
In some ways, this one strikes at my very core. In my darker moments, I am an agent that is acted on by forces outside of me. Something or someone is making my life less what I want it to be. Or, in my own mind, less that I need it to be. But I continue to learn that the story of others making me miserable may not be false but it is not the whole story.
I have so many choices, regardless of what is going on in the background. I can choose to whom I listen. I can choose what to believe things mean. I can choose to believe what people say to me or discount it to support my own story. In a very real sense, none of these things change what is going on; but, all of them change what I feel or think or imagine about what is going on.
As you read this I wonder:
What would make you more likely to choose hope today?
Why do you sometimes choose to ignore the endless blessings you have in favor of the thing that is not right?
Can you see that choosing you is not about being selfish but rather about being faithful to the full suite of things that are around you?
There’s an old saying, “Hope springs eternal.” I don’t really think that’s true. But the Spring of Hope is always a mere moment away. As we close the week, can you take a moment to refresh yourself and feel safer and more secure in the path before you?
