"For who hopes for what one sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait with endurance."
Romans 8:24-25
If we are in the midst of enjoying a beautiful, sunny day, we don't hope for a beautiful sunny day, right? We can hope it continues, but basically, we don't spend time hoping for what we already have around us. The harder task is to hope for the elusive, the mysterious, the unattained. Hope for something better to happen keeps us excited about the future, and a certain amount of that is good. But we can't be so wrapped up in the future we cheat ourselves out of living today. Today is the day in front of us. God has given us this precious gift of today and it is my hope for all of us that we live it to the fullest! But hope for the future keeps us planning and scheming and saving and yearning. Hope, itself, is positive and fruitful, but not if we sacrifice living fully today! Blessings on your waning-October-Tuesday! Love, heidi
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