January

 

— Hope —

 

 

January 1st

All you can do is start where you are.

But you can start—right here, right now.

You absolutely can.

 

January 2nd

I have great hopes which I must feed by doing all I can.

For hopes shape my reality when fed by work and plans.

 

January 3rd

Hope cannot accomplish much if you sit around and do nothing but dream. In the same vein, just going through the motions does very little if you have abandoned all hope.

 

January 4th

This is your present, not your past.

You live in the present, not the past.

What matters is the present, not the past.

 

January 5th

God is your Heavenly Father, the father of your spirit. How can you not be important to Him? How can you not have amazing potential with a lineage like that? Don’t give up, have hope. Believe in who you are: a child of a living God.

 

January 6th

Have hope.

Trust in the Lord.

Know He can do all things.

Exercise faith in God’s timing.

Believe.

 

January 7th

I hoped for a rose and got lilies.

I hoped for the sun and got rain.

I hoped for a cat and got puppies.

I hoped for Brazil and got Spain.

  

I hoped for a raise and got transferred.

I hoped for northwest and got south.

I hoped for ice cream and got yogurt.

I hoped for a kiss on the mouth.

   

I hoped for more time and got late fees.

I hoped for a cruise, got a flight.

I hoped for Poseidon, got Hades.

I hoped for long days over nights.

    

You may wonder why I keep hoping,

As fruitless as it seems to be.

But hope is a bow, not an arrow.

Its release depends much upon me.

 

January 8th

Sometimes you have to look at the sunny side of the problem. Though, you might ask, is there always a sunny side? Maybe not. Or maybe it just reveals itself a little further down the road when our perspective broadens enough to see the whole picture.

 

January 9th

The difference between hope and no hope is the difference between light and no light. It is the difference between dreams and no dreams, ambition and no ambition, joy and no joy, peace and no peace, tomorrow and no tomorrow.

 

January 10th

Hope is the reason we hang on until tomorrow. Without hope, there would be no tomorrow… or at any rate, there would be no purpose for it.

 

January 11th

What gives us hope is believing in the possibility of something. Even the slightest, minute possibility is enough to keep hope alive, and with it, our strength to hold on.

 

January 12th

Hope is a force that keeps us going, trying, reaching, and breathing. It is a fire in the soul that, if kept burning, will sustain us against all odds.

 

January 13th

This is hope: knowing God is aware of answers and options you do not presently see.

 

January 14th

Hope is like a spotlight that illuminates possibilities, making them stand out when they might not otherwise.

February

Copyright 2024 Richelle E. Goodrich