HOPE
Hope! Tell me about it!!
posted by Pauline @ Tuesday, January 10, 2006
8 comments
Metamorphing Metaphors
A butterfly starts out as a worm. The cocoon experience is even worse - being left alone in the dark. But even during the dark times, there's hope. Something beautiful is being created. She is being dressed; being given wings to fly. She's being prepared to someday dance among the flowers. A butterfly tells a story of the redeemed. I am one of them.
8 Comments:
Hope.
Hmmmmm... isn't that similar to a wish? Just speaking for myself, I prefer to see the miracles happening now rather than hope for something in the future.
Everyone wishes that it was that easy all the time Nwobserver. Unfortunantly, sometimes hope is all that keeps us going. Picture, if you will, a child sitting in the waiting room of a hospital. This particular child is waiting while his mother undergoes a life threatening operation. Is it more likely that the child will choose to bask in the glory of the miracles that occur all over the hospital? Or, more realisticaly, is it likely that he will HOPE that he gets to spend one more day with his mother? The anser is obvious. Hope drives people, it gives them something to strive for. And in some cases, hope is all that keeps a person going. Those in the military??? those who have been victimized recently?? lief is not all fluffy bunnies and candles. as Andy Dufraine once said "Hope is a good thing Red, Maybe the best of things." And I absolutely agree. Without hope, Mankind is lost.
Well, I see you are a person of strong opinions. I respect that. I know nothing about you, so, just to be clear: I mean no offense. Maybe just some ideas to chew on, ok? I understand what you are saying, and it has some truth.
But another truth is that hope is fine for children and victims. My reality is that the future can be influenced by attitude and actions. That would be true for soldiers and victims and children.
Actually, I've cared for children who were dying in hospital. Few of them hope; many of them accept, and are at peace because of that. Whether or not they see miracles I cannot say, but something lets them enjoy the moments they are granted. I think that even the families often ended up giving thanks for the miracle of their children for the time they had them.
I certainly agree that evil exists, and there really is no miracle to appreciate in that. But there are also a lot of miracles we miss because of our desires.
Mr. Dufrain also said, "...don't forget that there are places in the world not made out of stone, that there's something inside that they can't get to, that they can't touch. It is yours." That sounds like appreciation of miracles to me; Dufrain was defined by his actions, not his passivity.
Anyway, I thank you for challenging me to think about this a little; it's helped me. I wish you well. I look forward to reading more here.
I respect the notion that people can get so caught up in hoping for the future that they can miss the things that are around them right now. But, I still am emphatic about the idea that people in certain situation absolutely need hope. A great example of this was shown recently by a cousins husband. (although I am not sure exactly what that makes Jeff in relation to me) Maybe a cousin in-law. regardless, Jeff has been very sick for about a year, and his family practicioner has been pumping him full of drugs in the hopes of curing the diagnosed virus. It was only after a freak trip to the hospital that jeff learned his heart, at 28, was failing. In this situation he could focus on the fact that he has little to no insurance, the fact that his new wife and daughter had been without serious income for 10-12 months. Or, he could hope that somehow God would grant him an "extension". Though these donor lists can take months and even years he recieved a new heart within a month. Hope, when all around is dark and unfamiliar. Just allow yourself to be guided by HOPE
Ahhh, ok. What you describe as hope, I'd call prayer. Miracles. Intervention by angels. I'll take that kind of hope any day.
What are you hoping for, pauline?
Prayer and hope I can dig that. You say potatoe, I say potatoe. We are really just talking semantics now. I like the overall idea though; that when we need to believe that their will be some higher power that will intervene to help out...that it will come in the knick of time. Great blogging with ya, cannot wait until the next of pollywog's tantalizing topics!!
nwobserver,
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on hope here!
You asked what it is I'm hoping for. Fun question! It actually caught me off guard to read that, as my own hope wasn't on the forefront of my mind when I asked the question.
...You know? Hope is a mysterious thing to me. There is power in hope, as it seems both you and 'blogless in spokane' have come to agree on (to some degree :).
However, another side of hope, for me, is this: the scary side. It's something I have to be careful with as I sometimes hope for things that SHOULDN'T be hoped in, you know? Things that will fade away; things that may never come to pass; things that may leave me stranded in a state of disappointment that I can't seem to pull out of.
That was the long way around, huh? So, what am I hoping for? Right now, I'm hoping for heaven. I'm hoping for the promises of eternity to someday be my reality. And, I'm hoping that...someday, I figure out how to do this whole hope thing ;).
Pollywog! -- that is so cute!
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