This is a phrase that I like to say often. Hope is the last thing to go in people. Once it is gone the person has given up completely. Now I know this sounds pretty morbid and you might be wondering where I am going with this train of thought during this blessed Advent season. Well, it is blessed to some but to others it is truly a hard time. One where even a little bit of hope can be a healing balm.
I have been thinking about hope and vision and how I want to implement both into my work and personal lives. What I have concluded to this point is that just having some is all that is required. People really can get by with the bare minimum. I have seen those with advantages of skin-color, money, education, etc… get by on not much else. There is this phrase entitled “failing up”. It is one that is not afforded very often to those of us with not the “right” skin-color, money, education, etc… HOPE is all that we have and honestly it is a wonder to me always that it is enough. Shear perservance and hope in one self when no one else has it for you can be quite something.
I was listening to a celebrity memoir recently and what stuck me about this person was their hope in others and themselves that “this too shall pass”. They were able to deal with some pretty frustrating and silly things and where just able to move forward. Some of the situations would have caused others to abandon the whole thing and just move on in a different direction, but they stuck it out. It was inspiring and gave me a little bit of confidence in myself as well.
See that is the thing about Hope is is transferable, contagious even. If you don’t have enough you can listen to a song, talk to a friend, watch a movie, pray, what ever gets you by in order to build back your reserves, just in time to pass to another person in need of this gift. I would love to hear how you are cultivating, passing or building your own HOPE reserves out there.