in this liturgical week about hope, i have been looking each day for what i put my hope in. sometimes putting hope in God is easy... but when i do, sometimes i wonder if i confuse God with god. thing is, if we need it bad enough, we can theological construct the kind of god we need in order to have hope. but is that God? does it matter if we are able to find that hope we need anyway?
for me, it seems a lot harder to put hope in people. people are what they are. the realities of our humanity cannot be ignored. but everyday, in every relationship, we are asked to put hope in other people. we put our hope in other people's goodness. we put our hope in other people's love and best intentions. in the church when we fight, we put our hope in the fact that we all love jesus.
but we are disappointed time and again when things and people do not go our way. and again, we have to cultivate that hope. and then we are hurt. and we have to cultivate that hope again. over and over and over again for our entire lives.
from where does that hope come? is it from God, as God made our goodness? is it from Jesus, as he showed us what it means to be love?
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This seems way too negative for you. What's up?
i am not sure it is negative. i think it is the way it is, and when we recognize how much work relationships can be, and how hard it can be to cultivate hope, somehow that awareness makes the process easier.
and it is the end of the semester.
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