Hope
On Wednesday our friend of thirty something buried her husband, the father of their two year old son and unborn baby.
No words. Nothing.
Only a deep groaning inside as we received news last week…
This morning,
C.R. Snyder who did research on hope, had a theory. People who have hope (hope is no feeling but a way we think)are able to set goals, cultivate pathways to achieve these goals and have a sense of agency, meaning, they believe they can do it. Author Brene Brown spoke these truths while I was running this morning.
Hope is a function of struggle.
Hope is a function of struggle.
Hope is a function of struggle and in Petra’s case, suffering.
So Petra, I know this will come, the hope, because you have the tenacity in you. You’ve set that goal (even before you met Tom) of loving your Father and allowing him to embrace you, moving in and towards the destiny he has for you. You’ve cultivated those pathways through focus, worship and prayer as a way of life, joining the community in Germany and helping others to see. So that sense of ‘I believe I can do it’ will come with the help of his Spirit. It will come. We wait for it patiently.
Hold on dear Petra.
It.will.come.
I know it.
(Romans 8: 24-26)
