The sun is ascending the stairs of the sky heralding the beginning of a new day. I don’t know about you but however hard the night might have been, bad dreams, bad thoughts, bad foreboding, and dreading the day, the sunrise brings new hopes to me.
I am a big fan of the movie ‘The devil wears Prada’ there is a moment in the movie after Andy fails to get Miranda a flight home, and she says to her :
“Do you know why I hired you? I always hire the same girl: stylish, slender (of course), worships the magazine. But so often they turn out to be… I don’t know, disappointing, and… stupid. So, you with that impressive resume, and your big speech about your so-called work ethic — I thought you would be different. I said to myself, “Go ahead! Take a chance! Hire the smart fat girl!” I had hope. My God, I live on it. Anyway, you ended up disappointing me more than any of the other silly girls.
We are not different from Miranda when it comes to what we try to live in our lives, we all depend on that word knowing or unknowingly
- hope –
The interesting thing about hope is that it is not put on someone who can handle and carry the full weight of it, it tends to always bring disappointing results.
Like Miranda we too put hope in people, that’s not wrong, but we are people ourselves and we know that we can’t deliver always.
Our spouse
Our friends
Our children
Our job
Our health
Our security and safety resources….. all the above can give us a sense of hope for tomorrow and the future, but if we want unshakable hope, hope that is constant, hope that doesn’t depend on moods and circumstances then we must look somewhere else.
We must look at someone who is unchanging, powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving to us whatever the circumstances and our moods.
For me, that one is found in my faith in Jesus, my savior who is the source of all hope.
I wonder where/ who is the place you put your hope in?
Hope, like the anchor of a ship, needs to be put somewhere so that we can stand the storms of life and enjoy when the sea is quiet.
So, where are you anchored today?